Iron reduction under oxic conditions by Microbacterium deferre sp. nov. A1-JKT.

Acknowledgements: K.A. and J.J.M.L. both acknowledge funding from the European Union’s Horizon Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement (project 101109777; K.A. and 101152850; J.J.M.L.) and the Danish National Research Foundation (Center for Electromicrobiology, DNRF136). L.D. acknowledges that a part of the work presented here was supported by the Carlsberg Foundation, grant CF24-0116. The authors thank Dimitri Stamatis for his assistance with the HPLC, Lars Børregård Pedersen for assistance with oxygen monitoring experiments, Sinje Neukirchen for computational support and Jeanine Geelhoed for logistical support.