Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellens

Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Chloroflexi
Class:	Dehalococcoidia
Order:	Dehalococcoidales
Family:	Undefined
Genus:	Dehalogenimonas
Species:	D. lykanthroporepellans
Binomial name
Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellans

Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellens is an anaerobic, Gram-negative bacteria in the phylum Chloroflexi isolated from a Superfund site in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is useful in bioremediation for its ability to reductively dehalogenate chlorinated alkanes.

Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellens cells are Gram-negative, non-motile, irregular cocci that are 0.3-0.6 μm in diameter. There is no evidence of pathogenicity. They are mesophiles that can grow in a temperature range of 20-34 °C with their optimum temperature range being 28-34 °C. They grow best in pH 7-7.5 (pH range 6-8, although it was isolated from groundwater of pH 5.1). Growth has been observed in salt concentrations from 0.1-2% NaCl with optimum growth at ≤1%.GC-content reported in characterization of D. lykanthroporellens is 53.8% as determined by HPLC; however, as determined by genomic analysis, the GC-content is 55.04%.D. lyankanthroporepellens does not form spores. Resistance to the antibiotics ampicillin and vancomycin has been observed.

D. lykanthroporepellens is strictly anaerobic and uses hydrogen as an electron donor. It has been cultured in an anaerobic basal medium at 30 °C in the dark. It is able to reductively dehalogenate aliphatic alkanes (non-aromatic alkanes) such as 1,2,3-trichloropropane (reduces it to allyl chloride which abiotically transforms in the presence of water to allyl alcohol).

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