Disclosed in the present invention is a fluoroacetate dehalogenase mutant, a sequence of the fluoroacetate dehalogenase mutant comprising a mutated sequence having an amino acid residue H at position 155 and/or an amino acid residue W at position 156, as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; the fluoroacetate dehalogenase mutant has activity catalyzing bromination of a substrate, particularly a 2-bromobutyric acid substrate. Also provided in the present invention is an application of said fluoroacetate dehalogenase mutant in the preparation of (R)-2-bromobutyric acid and/or (R)-2-hydroxybutyric acid. When using the fluoroacetate dehalogenase mutant of the present invention to prepare (R)-2-bromobutyric acid, production costs are low and stereoselectivity is high, facilitating industrialized production.

Provided is a linked polynucleotide in which polynucleotides encoding a promoter, an anchoring motif, and a dehalogenase, respectively, are operatively linked to one another; a host cell including the linked polynucleotide; and a method of reducing a concentration of a fluorine-containing compound in a sample by using the host cell.

Disclosed in the present invention is a fluoroacetate dehalogenase mutant, a sequence of the fluoroacetate dehalogenase mutant comprising a mutated sequence having an amino acid residue H at position 155 and/or an amino acid residue W at position 156, as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; the fluoroacetate dehalogenase mutant has activity catalyzing bromination of a substrate, particularly a 2-bromobutyric acid substrate. Also provided in the present invention is an application of said fluoroacetate dehalogenase mutant in the preparation of (R)-2-bromobutyric acid and/or (R)-2-hydroxybutyric acid. When using the fluoroacetate dehalogenase mutant of the present invention to prepare (R)-2-bromobutyric acid, production costs are low and stereoselectivity is high, facilitating industrialized production.

A method of mitigating and rehabilitating soil and land areas contaminated with forever chemicals such as PFAS (perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl) based toxins involves manipulating genetic nucleotides of carrier organisms for expressing an enzyme reactive with the forever chemicals for rendering them benign. The carrier organisms pass the modified DNA that enables the enzyme to subsequent generations for maintaining an active population of enzyme-expressing organisms, typically worms, once introduced.