Georgenia muralis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from a medieval wall painting

P. Altenburger, P. Kampfer, P. Schumann, D. Vybiral, W. Lubitz and H. J. Busse Institut fur Bakteriologie, Mykologie und Hygiene, Veterinarmedizinische Universitat, A-1210 Wien, Austria Two bacterial strains, designated 1A-C(T) and 3A-1, were studied and, using these results and previously published data, taxonomically classified. Cells of the strains exhibited a rod--coccus cycle. The peptidoglycan determined for 1A-C(T) was of type A4alpha with lysine as the diagnostic cell-wall diamino acid and an interpeptide bridge of L-Lys