Dehalobacter

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{Italic title}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Dehalobacter'' | domain = Bacteria | phylum = Bacillota | classis = Clostridia | ordo = Clostridiales | familia = Gracilibacteraceae | genus = '''''Dehalobacter''''' | genus_authority = Holliger et al. 1998 | type_species = ''Dehalobacter restrictus'' | type_species_authority = Holliger et al. 1998 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * "''Ca.'' D. alkaniphilus" * ''D. restrictus'' }}

'''''Dehalobacter''''' is a genus in the phylum Bacillota (Bacteria).<ref name=LPSN/>

==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.<ref name=LPSN>{{lpsn3|genus/dehalobacter|Dehalobacter}}</ref><ref name=NCBI>{{cite web |author=Schoch CL |display-authors=et al. |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?command=show&mode=tree&id=56112&lvl=3 |title=Dehalobacter |accessdate=2025-06-05 |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database}}</ref>

== Species == The genus contains a two species,<ref name=NCBI/> 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.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Holliger | first1 = C. | last2 = Hahn | first2 = D. | last3 = Harmsen | first3 = H. | last4 = Ludwig | first4 = W. | last5 = Schumacher | first5 = W. | last6 = Tindall | first6 = B. | last7 = Vazquez | first7 = F. | last8 = Weiss | first8 = N. | last9 = Zehnder | first9 = A. J. B. | title = Dehalobacter restrictus gen. Nov. And sp. Nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetra- and trichloroethene in an anaerobic respiration | journal = Archives of Microbiology | volume = 169 | issue = 4 | pages = 313–321 | year = 1998 | pmid = 9531632 | doi = 10.1007/s002030050577| s2cid = 28240866 | url = https://www.dora.lib4ri.ch/eawag/islandora/object/eawag%3A3716 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Recently, ''Dehalobacter'' sp. UNSWDHB, which dechlorinate chloroform to dichloromethane, and its reductive dehalogenase were identified.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Jugder|first1=Bat-Erdene|last2=Ertan|first2=Haluk|last3=Wong|first3=Yie Kuan|last4=Braidy|first4=Nady|last5=Manefield|first5=Michael|last6=Marquis|first6=Christopher P.|last7=Lee|first7=Matthew|date=2016-08-10|title=Genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses ofDehalobacterUNSWDHB in response to chloroform|journal=Environmental Microbiology Reports|language=en|volume=8|issue=5|pages=814–824|doi=10.1111/1758-2229.12444|pmid=27452500|issn=1758-2229|hdl=1959.4/unsworks_46701|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Jugder|first1=Bat-Erdene|last2=Bohl|first2=Susanne|last3=Lebhar|first3=Helene|last4=Healey|first4=Robert D.|last5=Manefield|first5=Mike|last6=Marquis|first6=Christopher P.|last7=Lee|first7=Matthew|date=2017-06-20|title=A bacterial chloroform reductive dehalogenase: purification and biochemical characterization|journal=Microbial Biotechnology|language=en|volume=10|issue=6|pages=1640–1648|doi=10.1111/1751-7915.12745|issn=1751-7915|pmc=5658581|pmid=28631300}}</ref>

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{{Bacteria classification|state=collapsed}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q3704782}} Category:Peptococcaceae Category:Monotypic bacteria genera Category:Bacteria genera {{Clostridia-stub}}