Aerobic GenX Defluorination by a Wastewater Cladosporium halotolerans Strain with a Genomically Expanded Haloacid Dehalogenase Repertoire
Esaú De la Vega-Camarillo, Gayan Abeysinghe, Saurav Kumar Mathur, Rashmi Singla, Shravan Sharma Parunandi, Jorge Arreola‐Vargas, Smriti Shankar, Sanjay Antony‐Babu, Won‐Bo Shim
This paper identifies a wastewater Cladosporium halotolerans strain capable of aerobically degrading GenX, a PFAS, through a genomically expanded haloacid dehalogenase repertoire and a phased transcriptional program.
bioRxiv · Jul 29, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology