%0 Journal Article %T The pentachlorophenol-dehalogenating Desulfitobacterium hafniense strain PCP-1. %+ Institut Armand Frappier (INRS-IAF) %A Villemur, Richard %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0080-4622 %J Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences (1934–1990) %I Royal Society, The %V 368 %N 1616 %P 20120319 %8 2013-03-11 %D 2013 %R 10.1098/rstb.2012.0319 %M 23479749 %Z Life Sciences [q-bio] %Z Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology %Z Life Sciences [q-bio]/BiotechnologyJournal articles %X In this report, a complete description of Desulfitobacterium hafniense strain PCP-1 is presented. The D. hafniense strain PCP-1 was isolated from a methanogenic consortium for its capacity to dehalogenate pentachlorophenol (PCP) into 3-chlorophenol. This strain is also capable of dehalogenating several other chloroaromatic compounds and tetrachloroethene into trichloroethene. Four gene loci encoding putative chlorophenol-reductive dehalogenases (CprA2 to CprA5) were detected, and the products of two of these loci have been demonstrated to dechlorinate different chlorinated phenols. Strain PCP-1 was used in laboratory-scale bioprocesses to degrade PCP present in contaminated environments. Desulfitobacterium hafniense PCP-1 is an excellent candidate for the development of efficient bioprocesses to degrade organohalide compounds. %G English %L pasteur-01133119 %U https://riip.hal.science/pasteur-01133119 %~ RIIP %~ INRS-IAF