%0 Journal Article %A Täubel, Martin %A Kämpfer, Peter %A Buczolits, Sandra %A Lubitz, Werner %A Busse, Hans-Jürgen %T Bacillus barbaricus sp. nov., isolated from an experimental wall painting %D 2003 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 53 %N 3 %P 725-730 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02304-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X In a project concerning bacterial colonization of experimental wall paintings, a large number of isolates have been acquired with high similarities in their whole-cell protein patterns obtained after SDS-PAGE. Of this group, four strains, designated V2-BIII-A2T, V2-BI-A9, V2-BI-04 and V2-BII-A8, were chosen for further characterization. Banding patterns obtained after ERIC-PCR were barely distinguishable among these four strains, indicating their affiliation within a single species. The isolates also displayed nearly identical biochemical and physiological features. The chemotaxonomic characteristics, including polar lipids, quinone systems, cell-wall diamino acid composition and fatty acid profiles, were in good agreement with those of numerous previously described Bacillus species. 16S rDNA analysis of strain V2-BIII-A2T showed that this bacterium belongs to the genus Bacillus, with highest sequence similarities to Bacillus megaterium (94·6 %), Bacillus flexus (94·4 %) and the alkaliphilic Bacillus cohnii (94·2 %). Based on almost identical biochemical, physiological and chemotaxonomic traits, ERIC-PCR-generated genomic fingerprints and comparative 16S rDNA sequence analysis, it is demonstrated that the four isolates represent a novel species of the genus Bacillus, for which the name Bacillus barbaricus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is V2-BIII-A2T (=CCM 4982T=DSM 14730T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.02304-0