Metagenomic- and cultivation-based exploration of anaerobic chloroform biotransformation in hypersaline sediments as natural source of chloromethanes
P. Peng, Y. Lu, T. N. P. Bosma, I. Nijenhuis, B. Nijsse, S. A. Shetty, A. Ruecker, A. Umanetc, J. Ramiro-Garcia, A. Kappler, D. Sipkema, H. Smidt, S. Atashgahi
The paper investigates chloroform biotransformation in hypersaline sediments using cultivation and metagenomic approaches, finding that Clostridiales likely mediate CF to DCM and CO2 conversion.
bioRxiv · Nov 29, 2019Microbiology