''Dehalobacter'' is a genus in the phylum
Bacillota
The Bacillota (synonym Firmicutes) are a phylum of bacteria, most of which have gram-positive cell wall structure. The renaming of phyla such as Firmicutes in 2021 remains controversial among microbiologists, many of whom continue to use the ea ...
(
Bacteria
Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were am ...
).
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.
Species
The genus contains a single species,
[ 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. Recently, ''Dehalobacter'' sp. UNSWDHB, which dechlorinate ]chloroform
Chloroform, or trichloromethane, is an organic compound with formula C H Cl3 and a common organic solvent. It is a colorless, strong-smelling, dense liquid produced on a large scale as a precursor to PTFE. It is also a precursor to various re ...
to dichloromethane, and its reductive dehalogenase A dehalogenase is a type of enzyme that catalyzes the removal of a halogen atom from a substrate.
Examples include:
* Reductive dehalogenases
* 4-chlorobenzoate dehalogenase
* 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA dehalogenase
In enzymology, a 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA ...
were identified.
See also
* Bacterial taxonomy
Bacterial taxonomy is the taxonomy, i.e. the rank-based classification, of bacteria.
In the scientific classification established by Carl Linnaeus, each species has to be assigned to a genus ( binary nomenclature), which in turn is a lower level ...
* Microbiology
Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, ...
* List of bacterial orders
This article lists the orders of the Bacteria. The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
and the phylogeny is based on 16S ...
* List of bacteria genera This article lists the genera of the bacteria. The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). However many taxonomic names are ...
References
Peptococcaceae
Monotypic bacteria genera
Bacteria genera
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