%0 Journal Article %A Kotoučková, Ludmila %A Schumann, Peter %A Durnová, Eva %A Spröer, Cathrin %A Sedláček, Ivo %A Neča, Jiří %A Zdráhal, Zbyněk %A Němec, Miroslav %T Arthrobacter nitroguajacolicus sp. nov., a novel 4-nitroguaiacol-degrading actinobacterium %D 2004 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 54 %N 3 %P 773-777 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02923-0 %K 4-NP, 4-nitrophenol %K 4-NG, 4-nitroguaiacol %I Microbiology Society, %X Three bacterial isolates from soil, capable of degradation or transformation of nitroaromatic compounds and displaying a rod–coccus growth cycle, were studied by a polyphasic approach. On the basis of 16S rRNA sequence analysis and of chemotaxonomic characteristics, such as type A3α peptidoglycan with an interpeptide bridge Ala–Thr–Ala, the major menaquinone MK-9(H2) and fatty acid composition, the isolates were assigned to the genus Arthrobacter. DNA–DNA hybridization, riboprinting and phenotypic studies revealed that the three strains constitute a single species, distinct from phylogenetically neighbouring Arthrobacter aurescens and Arthrobacter ilicis. A novel species, Arthrobacter nitroguajacolicus sp. nov., with the type strain G2-1T (=CCM 4924T=DSM 15232T) is proposed. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.02923-0