%0 Journal Article %A Bajerski, Felizitas %A Ganzert, Lars %A Mangelsdorf, Kai %A Lipski, André %A Wagner, Dirk %T Cryobacterium arcticum sp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium from an Arctic soil %D 2011 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 61 %N 8 %P 1849-1853 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.027128-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A psychrotolerant, Gram-stain-positive, yellow-pigmented, aerobic rod, designated SK1T, was isolated from a soil sample collected from Store Koldewey, north-east Greenland. Cells were catalase- and methyl red-positive, produced H2S and produced acid from glucose, mannitol and salicin. Strain SK1T was able to grow between −6 and 28 °C, with an optimum at 20 °C. The isolate contained 2,4-diaminobutyrate, glycine, alanine and glutamic acid in the cell wall and the major menaquinones were MK-10 and MK-11. Identified polar lipids were phosphatidylglycerol and diphosphatidylglycerol. The major fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0 (53.5 %), anteiso-C17 : 0 (17.0 %) and C18 : 0 (12.1 %). The genomic DNA G+C content was 67.8 mol%. Strain SK1T showed the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with Cryobacterium psychrotolerans 0549T (97.6 %) and Cryobacterium roopkundense RuGl7T (96.8 %). Considering morphological, physiological, biochemical and chemotaxonomic characters and phylogenetic analysis, strain SK1T represents a novel species in the genus Cryobacterium, for which the name Cryobacterium arcticum sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SK1T ( = DSM 22823T  = NCCB 100316T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.027128-0