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    • Sequence analysis of an Archaeal virus isolated from a hypersaline lake in Inner Mongolia, China 

      Pagaling, Eulyn; Haigh, Richard D.; Grant, William D.; Cowan, Donald A.; Jones, Brian; Ma, Yanhe; Ventosa, Antonio; Heaphy, Shaun (BioMed Central, 2007)
      Background: We are profoundly ignorant about the diversity of viruses that infect the domain Archaea. Less than 100 have been identified and described and very few of these have had their genomic sequences determined. ...

    • Sputtered Si and Mg doped hydroxyapatite for biomedical applications 

      Abdulgader, Radwan; Monsees, Thomas K. (IOP Publishing, 2018-01-30)
      Hydroxyapatite (HAP) coatings are applied on metallic implant materials to combine mechanical properties of metallic material with bioactivity abilities of HAP ceramic. In this study, HAP coatings with additions of Si ...

    • Structure and functional characterization of pyruvate decarboxylase from Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus 

      van Zyl, Leonardo Joaquim; Schubert, Wolf-Dieter; Tuffin, Marla I.; Cowan, Donald A. (BioMed Central, 2014)
      BACKGROUND: Bacterial pyruvate decarboxylases (PDC) are rare. Their role in ethanol production and in bacterially mediated ethanologenic processes has, however, ensured a continued and growing interest. PDCs from ...

    • Structure of an aliphatic amidase from Geobacillus pallidus RAPc8 

      Kimani, Serah W.; Agarkar, Vinod B.; Cowan, Donald A.; Sayed, Muhammed F.; Sewell, B. Trevor (International Union of Crystallography, 2007)
      The amidase from Geobacillus pallidus RAPc8, a moderate thermophile, is a member of the nitrilase superfamily and catalyzes the conversion of amides to the corresponding carboxylic acids and ammonia. It shows both ...

    • The upper temperature for life – where do we draw the line? 

      Cowan, Donald A. (Elsevier, 2004)
      The newly isolated hyperthermophilic archaeal strain 121 grows slowly at 121 8C and even survives short periods at 130 8C. This is another organism that grows best at temperatures well in excess of 100 8C! We should not ...

    • Virome assembly and annotation: A surprise in the Namib Desert 

      Hesse, Uljana; Van Heusden, Peter; Kirby, Bronwyn; Olonade, Israel; van Zyl, Leonardo Joaquim; Trindade, Marla (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017)
      Sequencing, assembly, and annotation of environmental virome samples is challenging. Methodological biases and differences in species abundance result in fragmentary read coverage; sequence reconstruction is further ...