Enrichment, cultivation, and detection of reductively dechlorinating bacteria

Methods Enzymol. 2005:397:77-111. doi: 10.1016/S0076-6879(05)97005-5.

Abstract

Strategies and procedures for enriching, isolating, and cultivating reductively dechlorinating bacteria that use chloroorganic compounds as metabolic electron acceptors from environmental samples are described. Further, nucleic acid-based approaches used to detect and quantify dechlorinator (i.e., Dehalococcoides)-specific genes are presented.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Acetates / metabolism
  • Bacteria, Anaerobic / genetics
  • Bacteria, Anaerobic / growth & development
  • Bacteria, Anaerobic / isolation & purification*
  • Bacteria, Anaerobic / metabolism
  • Culture Media
  • DNA, Bacterial / isolation & purification
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial
  • Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated / metabolism*
  • Hydrogen / metabolism
  • Hydrolases / genetics
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
  • Soil Pollutants / metabolism

Substances

  • Acetates
  • Culture Media
  • DNA, Bacterial
  • Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
  • Soil Pollutants
  • Hydrogen
  • Hydrolases
  • 2-haloacid dehalogenase