Environmental Health

Scientists decipher genome of bacterium that cleans up groundwater pollutants

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 8th, 2005

Scientists have deciphered the genome sequence of a microbe that can be used to clean up pollution by chlorinated solvents, a major category of groundwater contaminants that are often left as byproducts of dry cleaning or industrial production.

The study of the DNA sequence of Dehalococcoides ethenogenes, which appears in the January 7 issue of Science, found evidence that the soil bacterium may have developed the metabolic capability to consume chlorinated solvents fairly recently, possibly by acquiring genes in an adaptation related to the increasing prevalence of the pollutants.

D. ethenogenes, which was discovered by Cornell...

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