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SUBMITTER: Morris RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1797105 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Morris R M RM Fung J M JM Rahm B G BG Zhang S S Freedman D L DL Zinder S H SH Richardson R E RE
Applied and environmental microbiology 20061110 1
Anaerobic reductive dehalogenation by Dehalococcoides spp. is an ideal system for studying functional diversity of closely related strains of bacteria. In Dehalococcoides spp., reductive dehalogenases (RDases) are key respiratory enzymes involved in the anaerobic detoxification of halogenated compounds at contaminated sites globally. Although housekeeping genes sequenced from Dehalococcoides spp. are >85% identical at the amino acid level, different strains are capable of dehalogenating diverse ...[more]