%0 Journal Article %A Dahal, Ram Hari %A Kim, Jaisoo %T Glaciihabitans arcticus sp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from Arctic soil %D 2019 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 69 %N 8 %P 2492-2497 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003520 %K DAB %K Glaciihabitans arcticus sp. nov. %K Arctic soil %K psychrotolerant %I Microbiology Society, %X A non-motile, Gram-stain-positive, rod-shaped bacterium, designated RP-3-7T, was isolated from soil sampled at the Arctic region in Cambridge Bay, NU, Canada. Cells were strictly aerobic, non-spore-forming, catalase-positive and oxidase-positive. Colonies on Reasoner's 2A agar plates were pale yellow-coloured. Strain RP-3-7T was psychrotolerant and grew optimally at 15–20 °C. Strain RP-3-7T assimilated d-glucose, d-mannitol, l-arabinose and l-proline; tolerated only 0.5 % NaCl (w/v). Phylogenetic analysis based on its 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that strain RP-3-7T formed a lineage within the family Microbacteriaceae and clustered with members of the genus Glaciihabitans . The closest member was Glaciihabitans tibetensis MP203T (98.26 % sequence similarity). The major respiratory quinone was MK-10. The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and an unidentified glycolipid. The major cellular fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0, iso-C16 : 0, anteiso-C17 : 0 and anteiso-C15 : 1 A. The diagnostic amino acid was 2,4-diaminobutyric acid and whole-cell sugars were xylose, rhamnose and mannose. The DNA G+C content of strain RP-3-7T was 66.9 mol%. The average nucleotide identity and in silico DNA–DNA relatedness values between strain RP-3-7T and Glaciihabitans tibetensis MP203T were 73.79 and 20.1 %, respectively. Based on the polyphasic, genomic and phylogenetic data, strain RP-3-7T represents a novel species of the genus Glaciihabitans , for which the name Glaciihabitans arcticus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is RP-3-7T (=KEMB 9005-731T=KACC 21151T=NBRC 113769T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.003520