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The anaerobic degradationof trichlorophenols (TCPs) is mediated by thermophilic spore-forming anaerobes that dechlorinate TCPs in media with complex carbon sources. The reductive dechlorination process is regulated by an inducible enzyme system as shown in studies using chloramphenicol to inhibit enzyme synthesis. Toxicity of chlorophenols to methanogenic bacteria is stoichiometric, that is, the positionof chlorine atoms in the phenol ring corresponds to the degree of chlorophenol toxicity. This toxicity plays a significant part in the transformation of TCPs because it inhibits the dehalogenation reaction to proceed.
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An obligately anaerobic dechlorinating bacterium was purified from a trichlorophenol-dechlorinating consortium selected from municipal sludge. The bacterium was putatively identified as a Clostridium species. Biochemical characterizations showed that the bacterium preferred to dechlorinate the ortho chlorine substituent. Further physiological tests showed that the organism had the ability to grow on pyruvate as sole carbon source, which produced approximately equimolar amounts of acetate.
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The hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus litoralis grown in defined and complex media produces a sparingly soluble exopolysaccharide with only mannose as the monosaccharidic component. The production of exopolysaccharide by T. litoralis is responsible for the formation of a thin biofilm on polycarbonate filters and glass slides. Growth of the bacteria is unaffected by the addition of elemental sulfur or the presence of H2.
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