Reductive dehalogenation of chlorinated dioxins by an anaerobic bacterium

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6921, 2003, Pages 357-360

  Bunge, Michael ^a   Adrian, Lorenz ^b   Kraus, Angelika ^a   Opel, Matthias ^c   Lorenz, Wilhelm G ^a   Andreesen, Jan R ^a   Görisch, Helmut ^b   Lechner, Ute ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c GfA Gesellschaft fur Arbeitsplatz   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BENZENE; CARCINOGENS; CHLORINATION; DECHLORINATION; DETOXIFICATION; HYDROGEN; SEDIMENTS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENATION;

DEHALOGENATION;

1,2,3,7,8 PENTACHLORODIBENZO 4 DIOXIN; CHLORINE; DIOXIN; HYDROGEN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DIOXIN;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY; CHLORINATION; DEHALOGENATION; DETOXIFICATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT; SPECIES;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BENZOFURANS; CHLORINE; DIOXINS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 0346319020     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01237     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Kaiser, J. Just how bad is dioxin? Science 288, 1941-1944 (2000).
2. Holliger, C., Wohlfarth, G. & Diekert, G. Reductive dechlorination in the energy metabolism of anaerobic bacteria. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 22, 383-398 (1999).
3. Adrian, L., Szewzyk, U., Wecke, J. & Gorisch, H. Bacterial dehalorespiration with chlorinated benzenes. Nature 408, 580-583 (2000).
4. Brzuzy, L. P. & Hites, R. A. Global mass balance for polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans. Environ. Sci Technol. 30, 1797-1804 (1996).
5. Meharg, A. A. & Osborn, D. Dioxins released from chemical accidents. Nature 375, 353-354 (1995).
6. Gribble, G. W. Encyclopedia of Environmental Analysis and Remediation (ed. Meyers, R. A.) 972-1035 (Wiley, New York, 1998).
7. Hoekstra, E. J., de Weerd, H., de Leer, E. W. B. & Brinkman, U. A. T. Natural formation of chlorinated phenols, dibenzo-p-dioxins, and dibenzofurans in soil of a Douglas fir forest. Environ. Sci. Technol. 33, 2543-2549 (1999).
8. Rappe, C. et al. PCDDs in naturally-formed lake sediment cores from Southern Mississippi, USA. Organohalogen Comp. 43, 111-116 (1999).
9. Müller, J. F. et al. PCDDs, PCDFs, PCBs and HCB in marine and estuarine sediments from Queensland, Australia. Chemosphere 39, 1707-1721 (1999).
10. Adriaens, P. & Grbic-Galic, D. Reductive dechlorination of PCDD/F by anaerobic cultures and sediments. Chemosphere 29, 2253-2259 (1994).
11. Adriaens, P., Fu, Q. & Grbic-Galic, D. Bioavailability and transformation of highly chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans in anaerobic soils and sediments. Environ. Sci. Technol. 29, 2252-2260 (1995).
12. Beurskens, J. E. M. et al. Dehalogenation of chlorinated dioxins by an anaerobic microbial consortium from sediment. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 14, 939-943 (1995).
13. Barkovskii, A. L. & Adriaens, P. Microbial dechlorination of historically present and freshly spiked chlorinated dioxins and diversity of dioxin dechlorinating populations. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62, 4556-4562 (1996).
14. Ballerstedt, H., Kraus, A. & Lechner, U. Reductive dechlorination of 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin and its products by anaerobic mixed cultures from Saale River sediment. Environ. Sci. Technol. 31, 1749-1753 (1997).
15. Albrecht, I. D., Barkovskii, A. L. & Adriaens, P. Production and dechlorination of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in historically-contaminated estuarine sediments. Environ. Sci. Technol. 33, 737-744 (1999).
16. Beurskens, J. E. M., Mol, G. A. J., Barreveld, H. L., van Munster, B. & Winkels, H. J. Geochronology of priority pollutants in a sedimentation area of the Rhine River. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 12, 1549-1566 (1993).
17. Bunge, M., Ballerstedt, H. & Lechner, U. Regiospecific dechlorination of spiked tetra- and trichlorodibenzo-p-dioxins by anaerobic bacteria from PCDD/F-contaminated Spittelwasser sediments. Chemosphere 43, 675-681 (2001).
18. Maynó-Gatell, X., Chien, Y., Gossett, J. M. & Zinder, S. H. Isolation of a bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetrachloroethene to ethene. Science 276, 1568-1571 (1997).
19. Dojka, M. A., Hugenholtz, P., Haack, S. K. & Pace, N. R. Microbial diversity in a hydrocarbon- and chlorinated-solvent-contaminated aquifer undergoing intrinsic bioremediation. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64, 3869-3877 (1998).
20. Hendrickson, E. R. et al. Molecular analysis of Dehalococcoides 16S ribosomal DNA from chloroethene-contaminated sites throughout North America and Europe. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68, 485-495 (2002).
21. von Wintzingerode, F., Selent, B., Hegemann, W. & Göbel, U. B. Phylogenetic analysis of an anaerobic, trichlorobenzene-transforming microbial consortium. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65, 283-286 (1999).
22. Löffler, F. E., Sun, Q., Li, J. & Tiedje, J. M. 16S rRNA gene-based detection of tetrachloroethenedechlorinating Desulfuromanas and Dehalococcoides species. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66, 1369-1374 (2000).
23. Wu, Q., Watts, J. E. M., Sowers, K. R. & May, H. D. Identification of a bacterium that specifically catalyzes the reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls with doubly flanked chlorines. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68, 807-812 (2002).
24. Cutter, L. A., Watts, J. E. M., Sowers, K. R. & May, H. D. Identification of a bacterium that specifically catalyzes the reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls with doubly flanked chlorines. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68, 807-812 (2002).
25. Ballschmiter, K., Zoller, W., Schiller, W. & Class, T. Quantitation of polychlorodibenzodioxin and polychlorobiphenyl standards by gas-chromatography-flame ionisation detection. Fresenius Z. Anal. Chem. 321, 247-251 (1985).
26. DIN EN 1948-3 Stationary source emissions-determination of the mass concentration of PCDDs/PCDFs. Part 3. Identification and quantification (Beuth, Berlin, 1997).
27. Breitenstein, A., Saano, A., Salkinoja-Salonen, M., Andreesen, J. R. & Lechner, U. Analysis of a 2,4,6-trichlorophenol-dehalogenating enrichment culture and isolation of the dehalogenating member Desulfitobacterium frappieri strain TCP-A. Arch. Microbiol. 175, 133-142 (2001).
28. Ludwig, Y. et al. Bacterial phylogeny based on comparative sequence analysis. Electrophoresis 19, 554-568 (1998).