RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Yan, Rui A1 Liu, Dongli A1 Fu, Yansong A1 Zhang, Ye A1 Ju, Hanxun A1 Zhao, Junwei A1 Wang, Xiangjing A1 Zhang, Ji A1 Xiang, WenshengYR 2019 T1 Arthrobacter celericrescens sp. nov., isolated from forest soil JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 69 IS 10 SP 3093 OP 3099 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003597 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A novel bacterial strain, designated NEAU-SA2T, was isolated from forest soil collected from the Zhangjiajie city, Hunan Province, PR China and characterised using a polyphasic approach. The cells were aerobic, Gram-stain-positive, non-flagellated and rod-coccus-shaped. The strain grew optimally at 28 °C, pH 7.0 and with 0 % NaCl (w/v). Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated that the organism should be assigned to the genus Arthrobacter and was closely related to Arthrobacter cupressi DSM 24664T (98.89 %) and Arthrobacter silvisoli CCTCC AB 2017271T (98.41 %), which was further confirmed by multilocus sequence analysis. The major cellular fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C17 : 0 and C16 : 0; MK-9(H2) was the predominant respiratory quinone. The polar lipids comprised diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylinositol and an unidentified glycolipid. The peptidoglycan type was A3α, and the cell-wall sugars were glucose and galactose. The genomic G+C content of strain NEAU-SA2T was 67.04 mol%. The average nucleotide identity values between NEAU-SA2T and A. cupressi DSM 24664T and A. silvisoli CCTCC AB 2017271T were 88.57–90.94 %. The digital DNA–DNA hybridisation values between strain NEAU-SA2T and its most closely related species were 37.00 and 41.10 %, respectively, again indicating that they belong to different taxa. Therefore, strain NEAU-SA2T represents a novel species of the genus Arthrobacter , for which the name Arthrobacter celericrescens sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is NEAU-SA2T (=DSM 106718T=CCTCC AB 2017272T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.003597