Coculture of Dehalobacter and Sedimentibacter that reductively dechlorinates the b-HCH isomer to benzene and chlorobenzene. Dehalobacter sp. E1 x Sedimentibacter sp. B4 coculture

The importance of organohalide-respiring Dehalobacter species in bioremediation of chlorinated organics has been well recognized, as is their limited range of metabolic modes. However, still little is known about the full genomic repertoires of these dedicated degraders, including the genes involved in the breakdown of organohalides. This metagenome gives us the first insights into the genome sequence of Dehalobacter sp. E1 that grows in strict coculture with Sedimentibacter sp. B4.