Mechanistic insights into extracellular reductive dechlorination of hexachloroethane by common non-electroactive bacteria Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli | Synapse
Mechanistic insights into extracellular reductive dechlorination of hexachloroethane by common non-electroactive bacteria Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli
Key Points
The research aims to explore how Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli dechlorinate hexachloroethane in their extracellular environment.
Examined the ability of Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli to dechlorinate hexachloroethane.
Analyzed the reduction products, pentachloroethane and tetrachloroethylene.
Conducted experiments in extracellular matrices.
Both bacteria effectively dechlorinated hexachloroethane to pentachloroethane.
Tetrachloroethylene was also identified as a product of this process.
Abstract
Common non-electroactive bacteria ( Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli ) can effectively dechlorinate hexachloroethane to pentachloroethane and tetrachloroethylene in the extracellular matrix.