D. Focht
1995
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Quality indicators
Journal
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
Abstract
Abstract Recent research on the aerobic transformation of polychlorinated biphenyls and other chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons has provided some encouraging results. The current paradigm is that highly chlorinated polychlorinated biphenyls are recalcitrant to bacterial dioxygenation and subjected only to reductive dehalogenation by anaerobic bacteria. The recent discovery of spontaneous dehalogenation by bacterial dioxygenases on aryl carbons bearing a chlorine substituent necessitates that this paradigm be reconsidered.