mBio (Feb 2021)

Acetylene-Fueled Trichloroethene Reductive Dechlorination in a Groundwater Enrichment Culture

  • Sara Gushgari-Doyle,
  • Ronald S. Oremland,
  • Ray Keren,
  • Shaun M. Baesman,
  • Denise M. Akob,
  • Jillian F. Banfield,
  • Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02724-20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1

Abstract

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Understanding the complex metabolisms of microbial communities in contaminated groundwaters is a challenge. PCE and TCE are among the most common groundwater contaminants in the United States that, when exposed to certain minerals, exhibit a unique abiotic degradation pathway in which C 22