RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Tian, Tian A1 Wu, Fasi A1 Ma, Yantian A1 Xiang, Ting A1 Ma, Wenxia A1 Hu, Weigang A1 Wu, Guangwen A1 An, Lizhe A1 Wang, Wanfu A1 Feng, HuyuanYR 2017 T1 Description of Naumannella cuiyingiana sp. nov., isolated from a ca. 1500-year-old mural painting, and emended description of the genus Naumannella JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 67 IS 8 SP 2609 OP 2614 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001964 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB Strain AFT2T was isolated from a mural painting sample from a ca. 1500-year-old tomb located in Shanxi Province, China. The isolate was a Gram-stain-positive, non-motile, non-spore-forming, aerobic and oval to short-rod-shaped bacterium that formed white-pigmented colonies. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that strain AFT2T was most closely (97.01 %) correlated and formed a monophyletic clade with Naumannella halotolerans WS4616T (=DSM 24323T). The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 71.97 mol%, and the strain showed 37.27 % DNA–DNA relatedness to N. halotolerans DSM 24323T. The major cellular fatty acid was anteiso-C15 : 0 (55.32 %), and MK-9(H4) was the only respiratory quinone. The polar lipids comprised phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, two unknown phospholipids and five unknown glycolipids. ll-Diaminopimelic acid was detected in the cell-wall peptidoglycan (type A3γ), and the whole-cell sugars consisted of ribose, mannose, arabinose and galactose. On the basis of its phenotypic and phylogenetic characteristics, it is proposed that strain AFT2T should be classified as a representative of a novel species of the genus Naumannella , for which the name Naumannella cuiyingiana sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is AFT2T (=CCTCC AB 2015428T=DSM 103164T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001964