Dehalobacter Explained

Dehalobacter is a genus in the phylum Bacillota (Bacteria).

Etymology

The generic name Dehalobacter derives from Latin de, from; halogenum from Swedish, coined by Swedish chemist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848) from Greek hals, halos "salt" + gen "to produce", so called because a salt is formed in reactions involving these elements; a rod bacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, a rod; giving Dehalobacter, a halogen-removing, rod-shaped bacterium.^[1]

Species

The genus contains a two species,^[1] namely D. restrictus (Holliger et al. 1998), type species of the genus. The specific name is from Latin restrictus, limited, restricted, confined, referring to the limited substrate range used.^[2] Recently, Dehalobacter sp. UNSWDHB, which dechlorinate chloroform to dichloromethane, and its reductive dehalogenase were identified.^{[3] [4]}

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

Notes and References

1. Web site: Schoch CL . et al. . Dehalobacter . 2025-06-05 . National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database.
2. Holliger . C. . Hahn . D. . Harmsen . H. . Ludwig . W. . Schumacher . W. . Tindall . B. . Vazquez . F. . Weiss . N. . Zehnder . A. J. B. . Dehalobacter restrictus gen. Nov. And sp. Nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetra- and trichloroethene in an anaerobic respiration . Archives of Microbiology . 169 . 4 . 313–321 . 1998 . 9531632 . 10.1007/s002030050577. 28240866 . free .
3. Jugder. Bat-Erdene. Ertan. Haluk. Wong. Yie Kuan. Braidy. Nady. Manefield. Michael. Marquis. Christopher P.. Lee. Matthew. 2016-08-10. Genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses ofDehalobacterUNSWDHB in response to chloroform. Environmental Microbiology Reports. en. 8. 5. 814–824. 10.1111/1758-2229.12444. 27452500. 1758-2229. 1959.4/unsworks_46701. free.
4. Jugder. Bat-Erdene. Bohl. Susanne. Lebhar. Helene. Healey. Robert D.. Manefield. Mike. Marquis. Christopher P.. Lee. Matthew. 2017-06-20. A bacterial chloroform reductive dehalogenase: purification and biochemical characterization. Microbial Biotechnology. en. 10. 6. 1640–1648. 10.1111/1751-7915.12745. 1751-7915. 5658581. 28631300.