Fraction of electrons consumed in electron acceptor reduction and hydrogen thresholds as indicators of halorespiratory physiology
Measurements of the hydrogen consumption threshold and the tracking of electrons transferred to the chlorinated electron acceptor (f{sub e}) reliably detected chlororespiratory physiology in both mixed cultures and pure cultures capable of using tetrachloroethene, cis-1,2-dichloroethene, vinyl chloride, 2-chlorophenol, 3-chlorobenzoate, 3-chloro-4-hydroxybenzoate, or 1,2-dichloropropane as an electron acceptor. Hydrogen was consumed to significantly lower threshold concentrations of less than 0.4 ppmv compared with the values obtained for the same cultures without a chlorinated compound as an electron acceptor. The f{sub e} values ranged from 0.63 to 0.7, values which are in good agreement with theoretical calculations based on the thermodynamics of reductive dechlorination as the terminal electron-accepting process. In contrast, a mixed methanogenic culture that cometabolized 3-chlorophenol exhibited a significantly lower f{sub e} value, 0.012.
- Research Organization:
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG07-96ER62319
- OSTI ID:
- 20000240
- Journal Information:
- Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 65, Issue 9; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1999; ISSN 0099-2240
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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