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Exploratory boreholes drilled between 1958 and 1962 on the 27th level (713 m underground) of the mine intersect calcium and iron-rich brines that have recently been subject to metagenomic analysis and microbial enrichments. Using concentrated brine samples pumped from a borehole depth of up to 55 m, a novel Gram-positive bacterium was enriched under anaerobic, acetate-oxidizing, and Fe(III) citrate-reducing conditions. The isolated bacterium, designated strain MK1, is non-motile, rod-shaped, spore-forming, anaerobic, and mesophilic, with a growth range between 24\u00b0C and 30\u00b0C. The complete circular MK1 genome was found to be 3,720,236 bp and encodes 25 putative multiheme cytochromes, including homologs to inner membrane cytochromes in the Gram-negative bacterium\n              <jats:italic>Geobacter sulfurreducens<\/jats:italic>\n              and cytoplasmic membrane and periplasmic cytochromes in the Gram-positive bacterium\n              <jats:italic>Thermincola potens<\/jats:italic>\n              . However, MK1 does not encode homologs of the peptidoglycan (CwcA) and cell surface-associated (OcwA) multiheme cytochromes proposed to be required by\n              <jats:italic>T. potens<\/jats:italic>\n              to perform extracellular electron transfer. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of MK1 indicates that its closest related isolate is\n              <jats:italic>Desulfitibacter alkalitolerans<\/jats:italic>\n              strain sk.kt5 (91% sequence identity), which places MK1 in a novel genus within the\n              <jats:italic>Desulfitibacteraceae<\/jats:italic>\n              family and\n              <jats:italic>Moorellales<\/jats:italic>\n              order. Within the\n              <jats:italic>Moorellales<\/jats:italic>\n              order, only\n              <jats:italic>Calderihabitans maritimus<\/jats:italic>\n              strain KKC1 has been reported to reduce Fe(III), and only\n              <jats:italic>D. alkalitolerans<\/jats:italic>\n              can also grow in temperatures below 40\u00b0C. 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