BOOK CHAPTERS
1. Cowan, D. A. Industrial Enzymology, Ch 18 in Biotechnology; the Science and the Business (Moses, V. & Capes, R. E. eds.) Harwood Academic Publ., London, 1991, pp 311-340.
2. Cowan, D.A. (1992) Thermophilic Archaebacteria. Ch. 1 in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Extremophiles. (Herbert, R.A. and Sharp, R.J., eds.) Blackie Publ., New York, pp 1-43.
3. Cowan, D.A. and Plant, A. (1991) Biocatalysis in Organic Phase Systems. Ch. in Biocatalysis at Extreme Temperatures. (Kelly, R.W.W. and Adams, M., eds.) Amer. Chem. Soc. Press. pp 86-107.
4. Cowan, D.A. and Ramana, V.K. (1992) Functional stability of esterases in two-liquid phase solvent systems. Ch. in Biocatalysis in Non-Conventional Media (H. Tramper & M. Lilly, eds.) Elsevier Press, pp. 623-628.
5. Cowan, D.A. (1995) Hyperthermophilic enzymes: biochemistry and biotechnology. In Hydrothermal Vents and Processes, Geological Society Publication no. 87, Geol. Soc. Publ. House, London, pp. 351-364.
6. Cowan, D.A. and Littlechild, J.A. (1996) High Temperature Enzymes; Sources of information for engineering protein stability. Ch. 1.11 in Enzyme Technology for Industrial Applications, (Savage, L.M., ed.) IBC Biomedical Library Series,
pp. 197-237.
7. Raven, N., Cowan, D. Danson, M., Hough, D., Norris, P., Johnson, B., Cairns, S., Sharp, R. and Atkinson, A. (1997) Measuring ATP in a volcano. in A practical guide to the industrial uses of ATP-luminescence in rapid microbiology. (P.E., Stanley, R. Smither & W.J. Simpson, eds.) Cora Technology publ.
8. Thompson, D., Fernandez-Lafuente, R., Matao, S., Cowan, D.A., Guisan, J. and Daniel, R.M. (1998) Degradation and denaturation of stable enzymes. in Stability and Stabilisation of Biocatalysts (A. Ballesteros, F.J. Plou, J.L. Iborra and P. Halling, eds.), Progress in Biotechnology Series, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 349-352.
9. Cowan, D.A. (1999) Life in Extreme Thermal Environments: Implications for exobiology. Ch 6 in Life on Mars. British Interplanet. Soc Special Publ. pp. 37-48.
10. R.M. Daniel, J.F. Holden, R. van Eckert, J. Truter and D.A. Cowan. (2003) The stability of biomolecules and the implications for life at high temperatures. In Subsurface Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges (W.S.D. Wilcock, C. Cary, E. DeLong, D.S. Kelley, and J.A. Baross, eds. American Geophysical Union Monograph, Washington, D.C. pp. 264-289.
11. Cowan, DA, Ah Tow, L, Smith, JJ, Cary, C, Moodley, K. (2005) Microbial molecular ecology of Antarctic mineral soil biotopes. In Antarctica; Global Laboratory for Scientific and International Collaboration, A. Tan, Z Yasin, M Mansor, eds., Academy of Sciences Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 113-118.
12. Sjöling, S. Stafford, W, Cowan, DA (2006) Soil metagenomics: Exploring and exploiting the soil microbial gene pool. Ch. 16 in Modern Soil Microbiology, 2nd Edn. van Elsas, JD, Jansson, J, Trevors, JT, Eds., CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, pp. 241 – 266.
13. Russell, NR and Cowan, DA. (2006) Methods for the handling of psychrophiles microorganisms. Ch. in Methods in Microbiology. Vol. 35, Oren, A, & Rainey, F, eds. 838pp. [ISBN 978-0-12-521537-4].
14. Cowan, DA, Casanueva, A, Stafford, W. (2007) Ecology and biodiversity of cold-adapted organisms. Ch. 9 in Physiology and Biochemistry of Extremophiles. Gerday, C., Glansdorff, N., eds. ASM Press, Washington DC, pp. 119-133.
15. Cowan, DA and Stafford, W. (2007) Metagenomic methods for determining active microorganisms and genes in bioremediation and biotransformation processes. Ch. 58 in ASM Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 3rd Edition. Editors: CJ Hurst, RL. Crawford, JL. Garland, DA Lipson, AL Mills, LD Stetzenbach. Eds., 1310 pp. ISBN: 978-1-55581-379-6
16. Daniel, R.M., Danson, M.J., Hough, D.W., Lee, C.K., Peterson, M.E. and Cowan, D.A. (2007) Enzyme stability and activity at high temperatures. Ch. 17 in Anatomy & Physiology of Extremophilic Proteins, Pub Nova Science, Eds. Thomas, T, Sidiqui, S. In Press
17. Sjoling, S, Cowan, DA. (2008) Metagenomics – microbial community genomes revealed. Ch. 20 in Psychrophiles: from Biodiversity to Biotechnology. Margesin, R.; Schinner, F.; Marx, J.-C.; Gerday, C. (Eds.) 462 pp. ISBN: 978-3-540-74334-7
PAPERS
18. Cowan, D. A., Green, T.G.A. and Wilson, A.T. (1979) Lichen Metabolism 1. The use of tritium- labelled water in studies of anhydrobiotic metabolism in Ramalina celastri and Peltigera polydactyla, New Phytol, 82 489-503.
19. Cowan, D. A., Green, T.G.A. and Wilson, A.T. (1979) Lichen Metabolism 2. Aspects of light and dark physiology. New Phytol 83, 761-769.
20. Daniel, R.M., Cowan, D.A. and Morgan, H.W. (1981) The industrial potential of enzymes from extremely thermophilic bacteria. Chem. New Zealand 45, 94-97.
21. Cowan, D.A. and Daniel, R.M. (1982) A modification for increasing the sensitivity of the casein-agar plate assay; a simple semi-quantitative assay for thermophilic and mesophilic proteases. J. Biochem. Biophys. Meth. 6,31-37.
22. Cowan, D.A. and Daniel, R.M. (1982) Purification and some properties of an extracellular protease (Caldolysin) from an extreme thermophile. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 705, 293-305.
23. Cowan, D.A. and Daniel, R.M. (1982) Immobilisation of Caldolysin, the extracellular protease from Thermus T351. Biotechnol Bioeng. 24, 2053-2059.
24. Cowan, D.A., Daniel, R.M. and Morgan, H.W. (1982) Caldolysin, the highly thermostable protease from the extreme thermophile Thermus aquaticus strain T351. Chem. New Zealand. 46, 122-125.
25. Daniel, R.M., Cowan, D.A., Curran, M. and Morgan, H.W. (1982) A correlation between protein thermostability and susceptibility to proteolysis. Biochem. J. 207, 641-644.
26. Khoo, T.C., Cowan, D.A., Daniel, R.M. and Morgan, H.W. (1984) Interactions of calcium and other metal ions with Caldolysin, the thermostable proteinase from Thermus aquaticus strain T351. Biochem. J. 221, 407-413.
27. Cowan, D.A., Daniel, R.M., Martin, A.M. and Morgan, H.W. (1984) Some properties of a ?-galactosidase from an extremely thermophilic bacterium. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 26, 1141-1145.
28. Cowan, D.A., Daniel, R.M. and Morgan, H.W. (1985) Thermophilic proteases: Properties and potential applications. Trends Biotechnol. 3, 68-72.
29. Cowan, D.A., Daniel, R.M. and Morgan, H.W. (1987) Some observations on the inhibition and activation of a thermophilic protease. Int. J. Biochem. 19, 483-486.
30. Cowan, D.A., Smolenski, K.A., Daniel, R.M. and Morgan, H.W. (1987) An extremely thermostable extracellular protease from a strain of the archaebacterium Desulfurococcus growing at 88oC. Biochem. J. 247, 121-133.
31. Cowan, D.A., Daniel, R.M. and Morgan, H.W. (1987) The specific activities of mesophilic and thermophilic proteases. Int. J. Biochem. 19, 741-743.
32. Cowan, D.A., Smolenski, K.A., Daniel, R.M. and Morgan, H.W. (1987) Properties of a thermostable protease from a thermoacidophilic archaebacterium. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 15, 641-642.
33. Cowan, D.A. (1987) DNA-binding proteins from four thermoacidophilic Archaebacteria. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 15, 640-641.
34. Cowan, D.A., Daniel, R.M. and Morgan, H.W. (1987) A comparison of extracellular proteases from four strains of the genus Thermus. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 43, 155-159.
35. Lambert, E.L., Cowan, D.A. and Piper, P.W. (1988) Heat shock protein genes identified in thermoacidophilic Archaebacteria. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 56, 157-160.
36. Coolbear, T., Daniel, R.M., Cowan, D.A. and Morgan, H.W. (1988) Proteases from extreme thermophiles. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 542, 279-281.
37. Lind, D., Cowan, D.A., Daniel, R.M. and Morgan, H.W. (1989) A ?-galactosidase from a strain of the anaerobic thermophile Thermoanaerobacter. Enzyme Microb. Technol. 11, 180-185.
38. Owusu, R.K. and Cowan, D.A. (1989) Microbial protein stability in aqueous:organic two-phase solvent systems. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 17, 581-582.
39. Owusu, R.K. and Cowan, D.A. (1989) A correlation between microbial protein thermostability and resistance to denaturation in aqueous-organic solvent two-phase systems. Enzyme Microb. Technol. 11, 568-574.
40. Saravani, A., Daniel, R.M., Cowan, D.A. and Morgan, H.W. (1989) Caldolase, a chelator-insensitive extracellular protease from a Thermus species. Biochem. J. 262, 409-416.
41. Takasawa, Y., Cowan, D.A., Bonnerjea, J. and Hoare, M. (1990) Heat-induced precipitation of cell homogenates: An investigation of thermostable proteins expressed in mesophilic hosts. Enzyme Microb. Technol. 12, 184-190.
42. Owusu, R.K. and Cowan, D.A. (1990) Biocatalysis in organic solvent systems using thermostable enzymes: Esterase catalysed transesterification of Z-L-tyrosine p-nitrophenyl ester. Enzyme Microb. Technol. 12, 374-377.
43. Owusu, R.K. and Cowan, D.A. (1991) Isolation and partial characterisation of a novel thermostable carboxylesterase from a thermophilic Bacillus. Enzyme Microb. Technol. 13, 158-163.
44. Connaris, H., Cowan, D.A. and Sharp, R. (1991) Heterogeneity of proteases produced by Pyrococcus furiosus, a thermoacidophilic archaebacterium growing at 98oC. J. Gen. Microbiol. 137, 1193-1199.
45. Connaris, H., Cowan, D.A., Ruffett, M. and Sharp, R. (1991) Preservation of the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus. Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 13, 25-27.
46. Ward, J.M., Wallace, L.J., Cowan, D.A. and Shadbolt, P (1991) Phosphocellulose as a tool for rapid purification of DNA-modifying enzymes. Anal. Chim. Acta 249, 195-200.
47. Plant, A.L. and Cowan, D.A. (1991) Application of thermophilic alcohol dehydrogenase in a substrate coupled production of chiral alcohols. Abstr. Amer. Chem. Soc. meeting, Atlanta 1991, 201, 99.
48. Cowan, D.A. (1992) Enzymes from thermophilic Archaebacteria: Current and future applications in biotechnology. Biochem. Soc. Symposium, 58, 149-169.
49. Simpson, H.D. and Cowan, D.A. (1992) Secondary alcohol dehydrogenases from extremely thermophilic bacteria. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 672, 145-152.
50. Cowan, D.A. (1992) Biotechnology of the Archaea. Trends in Biotechnol. 10, 315-323.
51. Montiel, P. and Cowan, D.A. (1993) The possible role of soluble carbohydrates and polyols as cryoprotectants in Antarctic plants. Antarctic Science 119-126
52. Wood, A.N.P., Fernandez-Lafuente, R. and Cowan, D.A. (1995) Purification and partial characterisation of a novel thermophilic carboxylesterase with high mesophilic specific activity. Enzyme Microb. Technol. 17, 826-835.
53. Simpson, H. and Cowan, D.A. (1995) The purification and characterisation of a novel sec-alcohol dehydrogenase from a Thermoanaerobacterium species. Peptide Protein Lett. 1, 207-214.
54. Wood, A.N.P., Fernandez-Lafuente, R. and Cowan, D.A. (1995) Characterisation of a novel thermostable esterase as an industrial catalyst. Biotech. Appl. Biochem. 21, 313-322.
55. Fernandez-Lafuente, R., Wood, A.N.P and Cowan, D.A (1995) Hyperstabilisation of a thermophilic esterase by multi-point covalent attachment. Enzyme Microb. Technol. 17, 366-372.
56. Fernandez-Lafuente, R., Wood, A.N.P. and Cowan, D.A. (1995) Reducing enzyme conformational flexibility by multi-point covalent immobilisation. Biotechnol. Tech. 9, 1-6.
57. Cowan, D.A. (1995) Protein stability at high temperatures. Essays in Biochem. 29, 193-207.
58. Jones, C.E., Fleming, T.M., Piper, P.W., Littlechild, J.A. and Cowan, D.A. (1995) Cloning and sequencing of a gene from the Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus with high homology to a gene encoding phosphoenolpyruvate synthetase from E coli. Gene, 160, 101-103.
59. Jones, C.E., Fleming, T.M., Cowan, D.A., Littlechild, J.A. and Piper, P.W. (1995) The phosphoglycerate kinase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase genes from the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus overlap by 8 codons: Isolation, sequencing of the genes and expression in E. coli. Eur. J. Biochem. 233, 800 – 808.
60. Kirk, N. and Cowan, D.A. (1995) Optimising the recovery of thermostable enzymes cloned and expressed in mesophilic hosts. J. Biotechnol. 42, 177-184.
61. Cowan, D.A. and Daniel, R.M. (1996) Rapid purification of two thermophilic proteases using dye-ligand chromatography. J. Biochem. Biophys. Meth. 31, 31-37.
62. Piper, P. W., Emson, C., Jones, C. E., Cowan, D. A., Fleming, T. M. & Littlechild, J. A. (1996). Complementation of a PGK deletion mutation In Saccharomyces cerevisiae with expression of the phosphoglycerate kinase gene from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. Current Genetics 29, 594-596.
63. Fleming, T., Jones, C., Piper, P.W., Cowan, D.A., Adams, M.W.W. and Littlechild, J.A. (1996) The purification and characterisation of phosphoglycerate kinase from the hyperthermophilic Bacterium Thermotoga maritima. Peptide Prot. Lett. 3, 213-218.
64. Graham, D., Simpson, H.D. and Cowan, D.A. (1996) Effect of cosolvent and temperature on the enantioselectivity of aliphatic ketone reductions catalysed by thermostable secondary alcohol dehydrogenases. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 799, 244-250.
65. Koulis, A., Cowan, D.A., Pearl, L. and Savva, R. (1996) Uracil DNA glycosylase activities in hyperthermophilic Archaea and Bacteria. FEMS Micro. Lett. 143. 267-271.
66. Simpson, H. and Cowan, D.A. (1997) Control of sec-alcohol dehydrogenase stereoselectivity using hydrophilic organic solvents. Peptide Prot. Lett. 4, 25-32.
67. Cramp, R., Gilmour, M. and Cowan, D.A. (1997) Novel thermophilic bacteria producing nitrile-degrading enzymes. Microbiology 143, 2313-2320.
68. Cowan, D.A. (1997) Relationships between enzyme stability, activity and conformational mobility in organic solvents. Comp. Physiol. Biochem. [A] 118, 429-438.
69. Cowan, D.A. (1997) The Marine Biosphere: A global resource for biotechnology. Trends Biotechnol. 15, 129-131.
70. Fleming, T., Jones, C., Piper, P.W., Cowan, D.A., Isupov, M. and Littlechild, J.A. (1998) Characterisation and crystallisation of glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. Acta Cryst. D54, 671-674.
71. Egas, M.C. V., da Costa, M.S., Cowan, D.A. and Vieira Pires, E.M. (1998) Purification and characterisation of an extracellular ?-amylase from Thermus filiformis OrkA2. Extremophiles 2, 23-32.
72. Pereira, R., Graham, D. & Cowan, D.A. (1998) A novel thermostable nitrile hydratase. Extremophiles 2, 347-358.
73. Cowan, D.A., Cramp, R.A., Pereira, R.A. and Almatawah, Q. (1998) Biochemistry and biotechnology of nitrile-metabolising enzymes. Extremophiles 2, 207-216.
74. Ali, S., Fernandez-Lafuente, R. and Cowan, D.A. (1998) Meta-pathway degradation of phenolics by thermophilic Bacilli. Enzyme Microb. Technol. 23, 462-468.
75. Cramp, R.A& Cowan, D.A. (1999) Molecular characterisation of a novel thermophilic nitrile hydratase. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1431, 249-260.
76. Huneke, F-U. and Cowan, D.A. (1999) Effect of water-miscible organic solvents on the kinetics of a thermostable ?-glucosidase. Biocatal. Biotrans., 17, 251-267
77. Almatawah, Q., Cramp, R.A. and Cowan, D.A. (1999) Characterisation of an inducible nitrilase from a thermophilic bacillus. Extremophiles 3, 283-291
78. Almatawah, Q. and Cowan, D.A. (1999) Thermostable nitrilase catalysed production of nicotinic acid from 3-cyanopyridine. Enzyme Microb. Technol. 25, 718-724
79. Fernandez-Lafuente, R, Guisan, JM, Ali, S, Cowan, DA (2000) Immobilization of functionally unstable catechol-2,3-dioxygenase greatly improves operational stability. Enzyme Microb. Technol. 26:268-573.
80. Cowan, DA (2000) Microbial genomes-the untapped resource. Trends Biotechnol. 18:14-16.
81. Graham, D, Barfield, D, Pereira, RA, Cowan, DA (2000) Nitrile transformation studies using free and immobilised cells of a thermophilic Bacillus sp. Enzyme Microb. Technol. 26:368-373.
82. Daniel, RM, Cowan, DA (2000) Biomolecular stability and life at high temperatures. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 57:250-64
83. Huneke, F-U, Bailey, D, Nucci, R, Cowan, DA (2000) Sulfolobus solfataricus ?-glucosidase catalysed synthesis of alkyl glycosides in organic solvents. Biocatal. Biotrans. 18:291-299.
84. Sjoling, S, Cowan, DA (2000) Presence of human-specific enteric micro-organisms in current and historic field camp sites. Polar Biol. 23:644-650.
85. Cowan, DA (2000) Using your neighbours genome! Nature 407:466-467.
86. Atkinson, T, Cairns, S, Cowan, DA, Danson, MJ, Hough, DW, Johnson, DB, Norris, P, Raven, N, Robson, R, Robinson, C, Sharp, RJ (2000) A microbiological survey of Montserrat Island hydrothermal biotopes, Extremophiles 4:305-314.
87. Baker, GC, Gaffar, S, Cowan, DA Suharto, AR (2001) Microbial community analysis of Indonesian hot-springs. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 200:103-109
88. Cowan, DA, Burton, SB (2002) Archaea in Biotechnology. Encyclopaedia of Environmental Microbiology. Wiley, Publ. pp. 259-276
89. Burton, S, Cowan, DA, Woodley, JM (2002) The search for the ideal biocatalyst. Nature Biotechnol. 30:35-46
90. Bustard, MT, Whiting, S., Cowan, DA, Wright, PC (2002) Biodegradation of high concentration solvents by a solvent tolerant thermophile, Bacillus pallidus. Extremophiles 6:319-323.
91. Wilkinson, D, Jaenicke, T, Cowan, DA (2002) Efficient cloning of DNA from environmental sources. Biotechnol. Lett. 24:155-161.
92. Cowan, D.A., Mamais, A. Sheppard, D, Russell, N (2002) Antarctic Dry Valley mineral soils contain unexpectedly high levels of microbial biomass. Extremophiles 6:431-436.
93. Cameron, R, Tsekoa, T, Cowan, DA (2003) Comparative biology of thermophilic and mesophilic nitrile hydratases, Adv. Appl. Microbiol. 52:123-158.
94. Baker, G, Ah Tow, L, Cowan, DA (2003) Detection of non-indigenous micro-organisms in ‘pristine’ environments. J. Microbiol. Methods 53:157-164.
95. Sjoling, S, Cowan, DA (2003) High 16S rDNA bacterial diversity in glacial meltwater lake sediment, Bratina Island, Antarctica, Extremophiles 7:275-282.
96. Ah Tow, L, Cowan, DA (2003) Non-specificity of Staphylococcus generic primers. Microbiology 149:1605-1607.
97. Baker, G, Smith, JJ, Cowan DA (2003) Review and re-analysis of Domain-specific 16S primers, J. Microbiol. Methods 55:451-455.
98. Cowan DA, Arslanoglu, A., Burton, SG, Baker, GC, Cameron, RA, Smith, JJ, Meyer, Q (2004) Metagenomics, gene discovery and the ideal biocatalyst. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 32:298-302.
99. Baker, GC, Cowan, DA (2004) 16S rDNA primers and the unbiased assessment of thermophile diversity. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 32:218-221.
100. Cowan, DA (2004) The upper limit of life – how far can we go? Trends Microbiol. 12:58-60.
101. Cowan, DA, Ah Tow, L (2004) Endangered Antarctic microbial communities. Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 58, 649-690.
102. Tsekoa, T, Sayed, M, Sewell, T, Cowan DA. (2004) Preliminary structural analysis of a thermostable nitrile hydratase. S.A. J. Sci. 100, 488-490.
103. Cameron, RA, Sayed, M, Cowan, DA (2005) Molecular analysis of the nitrile catabolism operon of the thermophile Bacillus pallidus RAPc8. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1725, 35-46.
104. Cowan, DA, Meyer, Q, Stafford, W., Muyanga, S., Cameron, RA, Wittwer P. (2005) Metagenomic gene discovery: past, present and future. Trends Biotechnol. 23:321-329.
105. Ah Tow, L, Cowan, DA. (2005) Dissemination and survival of non-indigenous bacterial genomes in pristine Antarctic environments. Extremophiles 9:385-389.
106. Xue, Y, Fan, H, Ventosa, A, Grant, WD, Jones, B, Cowan, DA, Ma, Y. (2005) Haloalkalicoccus tibetense gen. nov., sp. nov. a novel genus of haloalkaliphilic archaeon. Int. J. System. Appl. Microbiol. 55:2501-2505.
107. Stafford, WHL, Baker, GC, Brown, SA, Burton SG, Cowan DA. (2005) Bacterial diversity in the rhizosphere of Proteaceae species. Environ. Microbiol. 7:1755-1768.
108. Grant, S, Grant, W, Cowan, DA, Jones, B, Ma, Y, Ventosa, A, Heaphy, S. (2006) Identification of eukaryotic open reading frames in metagenomic cDNA libraries made from environmental samples. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:135-43.
109. Carrasco, IJ, Marquez, MC, Yanfen, X, Ma, Y, Cowan, DA, Jones, BE, Grant WD, Ventosa, A. (2006) Gracilibacillus orientalis sp. nov., a novel moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt lake in Inner Mongolia, China. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 56:599-604
110. Castillo AM, Gutierrez MC, Kamekura M, Ma Y, Cowan DA, Jones BE, Grant WD, Ventosa, A. (2006) Halovivax asiaticus gen. nov. sp. nov., a novel extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from Inner Mongolia, China. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 56:765-770
111. Smith, JJ, Ah Tow, L, Stafford, W, Cary, C, Cowan, DA (2006) Bacterial diversity in three different Antarctic cold desert mineral soils, Microb. Ecol. 51:413-421
112. Xue Y, Zhang X, Zhou C, Zhao Y, Cowan DA, Heaphy S, Grant WD, Jones BE, Ventosa, A, Ma Y. (2006) Caldalkalibacillus thermarum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alkalithermophilic bacterium from a hot spring in China. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 56:1217-1221.
113. Castillo AM, Gutierrez MC, Kamekura M, Xue Y, Ma Y, Cowan DA, Jones BE, Grant WD, Ventosa A. (2006) Halostagnicola larsenii gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon from a saline lake in Inner Mongolia, China. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 56:1519-1524.
114. Dürr, R, Vielhauer, O, Burton, SG, Cowan, DA, Puñal, A, Brandão, PFB, Bull AT, Syldatk, C. (2006) Distribution of hydantoinase activity in bacterial isolates from geographically distinct environmental sources. J. Mol. Cataly. B. Enzymic. 39:160-165.
115. Castillo AM, Gutierrez MC, Kamekura M, Xue Y, Ma Y, Cowan DA, Jones BE, Grant WD, Ventosa, A. (2006) Halorubrum orientale sp. nov., a novel halophilic archaeon isolated from Lake Ejinor, Inner Mongolia, China. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 56:2559-63.
116. Castillo AM, Gutierrez MC, Kamekura M, Xue Y, Ma Y, Cowan DA, Jones BE, Grant WD, Ventosa, A. (2006) Natrinema ejinorense sp. nov., isolated from a saline lake in Inner Mongolia, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 56:2683-2687.
117. Agakar, VB, Kimini, SH, Cowan, DA, Sayed, MSF-R, Sewell, TB. (2006) The quaternary structure of the amidase from Geobacillus pallidus RAPc8 is revealed by its crystal packing. Acta Cryst. F. 62:1174-1178.
118. Meyer, QC, Burton, SB, Cowan, DA (2007) Subtractive hybridization magnetic bead capture: A new technique for the recovery of full length ORFs from the metagenome. Biotechnol. J. 2:36-40
119. Makhongela, HS, Glowacka, A, Agarkar, VB, Sewell, BT, Weber, B, Cameron, RA, Cowan, DA and Burton, SG. (2007) A novel thermostable nitrilase superfamily amidase from Geobacillus pallidus showing acyl transfer activity. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 75:801-811.
120. Márquez, C, Carrasco, IJ, Xue, Y, Ma, Y, Cowan, DA, Jones, BE, Grant WD, Ventosa, A. (2007) Aquisalimonas asiatica gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from an alkaline, saline lake in Inner Mongolia, China. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 57:1137-1142.
121. Castillo, AM, Gutierrez, MC, Kamekura, K, Ma, Y, Cowan, DA, Jones, BE, Grant WD, Ventosa, A. (2007) Halovivax ruber sp. nov., a novel extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from Inner Mongolia, China. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 57:1024-1027.
122. Olaniran, AO, Stafford, WHL, Cowan, DA, Pillay, D, Pillay, B. (2007) Microbial community profiling in cis- and trans-dichloroethene enrichment systems using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. J. Microb. Biotechnol. 17:560-570.
123. Rashamuse, KJ, Burton, SG, Stafford, W, Cowan, DA. (2007) Molecular characterization of a novel family VIII esterase from Burkholdaria multivorans UWC10. J. Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 13:181-188
124. Gutiérrez, MC, Castillo, AM, Kamekura, M, Xue, Y, Ma, Y, Cowan, DA, Jones, BE, Grant, WD, Ventosa, A. (2007) Halopiger xanaduensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from a saline lake in Inner Mongolia, China. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 57:1402-1407.
125. Silva-Stenico, E, Vengadajellum, CJ, Janjua, HJ, Harrison, STL, Burton,SG, Cowan, DA. (2007) Degradation of low rank coal by Trichoderma atroviride ES11. J. Indust. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 34:625-631.
126. Pagaling, E., Haigh, R., Grant, WD, Cowan, DA, Jones, B., Ma, Y., Ventosa A., Shaun Heaphy. (2007) Sequence analysis of an archaeal virus isolated from a hypersaline lake in Inner Mongolia, China. BMC Genomics, 8:410-416
127. Carrasco, IJ, Márquez, MC, Xue, Y, Ma, Y, Cowan, DA, Jones, BE, Grant, WD, Ventosa, A. (2007) Bacillus chagannorensis sp. nov., a moderate halophile from a soda lake in Inner Mongolia, China. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 57:2084-2088.
128. Carrasco, IJ, Márquez, MC, Xue, Y, Ma, Y, Cowan, DA, Jones, BE, Grant, WD, Ventosa, A. (2007) Salsuginibacillus kocurii gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from soda lake sediment. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 57: 2381-2386.
129. Rashamuse, KJ, Burton, SG, Cowan, DA. (2007) A novel recombinant ethyl ferulate esterase from Burkholdaria multivorans. J Appl. Microbiol. 103:1610-1620.
130. Carrasco, IJ, Márquez, MC, Xue, Y, Ma, Y, Cowan, DA, Jones, BE, Grant, WD, Ventosa, A. (2007) Halorubrum ejinorense sp. nov., isolated from Lake Ejinor, Inner Mongolia, China. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. 57:2538-2542.
131. Kimani, SW, Agarkar, VB, Cowan, DA, Sayed, MF-R, Sewell, BT. (2007) The crystal structure of an aliphatic amidase from Geobacillus pallidus RAPc8: evidence for a fourth nitrilase catalytic residue. Acta Cryst. D. 63:1048-1058.
132. Cowan, DA, Casanueva, A. (2007) Stability of ATP in Antarctic desert soils. Polar Biology, 30:1599-1603.
133. Porter, D., Roychoudhury, AN, Cowan, DA. (2007) Dissimilatory sulphate reduction in hypersaline coastal pans: Part 1. Activity across a salinity gradient. Geochim Cosmochim. Acta. 71:5102-5116
134. Wood SA, Rueckert A, Cowan DA, Cary SC. (2008) Aquatic cyanobacteria, important contributors to edaphic cyanobacterial diversity in the Dry Valleys of Eastern Antarctica? ISME J. 2:308-320
135. Oboirien, BO, Burton, SG, Cowan, DA, Harrison, STL. (2008) The effect of the particulate phase on coal biosolubilisation mediated by Trichoderma atroviride in a slurry bioreactor. Fuel Processing Technology. 89:123-130.
136. Lingfei Hu, Hailian Pan, Yanfen Xue, A. Ventosa, D. A. Cowan, B. E. Jones, W. D. Grant and Yanhe Ma. (2008) Halorubrum luteum sp. nov., isolated from Lake 1 Chagannur, Inner Mongolia, China. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. Accepted for publication.
137. Carrasco, IJ, M. C. Márquez, Y. Xue, Y. Ma, D. A. Cowan, B. E. Jones, W. D. Grant and A. Ventosa. (2008) Sediminibacillus halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic Gram-positive bacterium from a hypersaline lake. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol. Accepted for publication.
138. Cowan, DA, Cary, SC, Stafford, W, Casanueva. A. (2008) Molecular adaptations to psychrophily: New insights from metagenomics. The Open Microbiology Journal. Accepted for publication
139. Galada, N., Casanueva, AI, Baker, GC, Grant, WD, Heaphy, S, Jones, B, Ma Y, Ventosa, A, Blamey, J, and Cowan, DA. (2008) Nanoarchaeal 16S rRNA gene sequences are widely dispersed in hyperthermophilic and mesophilic halophilic environments. Extremophiles. Accepted for publication
Papers Submitted and in Preparation
140. Cowan, DA, Sjoling, S, Stafford, WHL, Rohr, LM, Heath, C. Metagenomics in Agribiotechnology. In Proc., APaCPA, Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 2007. Submitted.
141. Rohr, LM, Mashaphu, N, Sheridan, C, Burton, SG, and Cowan, DA. Seasonal shifts of the microbial community structure in a winery waste-impacted wetland soil. ISME J. Submitted.
142. Porter, D., Roychoudhury, AN, Cowan, DA. Dissimilatory sulphate reduction in hypersaline coastal pans: Part II. Temperature dependence and temperature considerations. Submitted.
143. Ruiz Sebastián, C, Cowan, DA. Thermally-sensitive zooxanthellae predominate in southern African scleractinian corals. Coral Reefs, Submitted
144. Staniland, S, Roychoudhury, AN, Cowan, DA. Cobalt uptake and resistance to trace metals in Comamonas testosteroni isolated from heavy-metal contaminated sites in the Zambian Copperbelt. Submitted.
145. T.L. Tsekoa, A.O. Tastan-Bishop, M.F. Sayed, B.T. Sewell and D.A. Cowan. Structural analysis of a thermostable Co-type nitrile hydratase: the role of active site residues in enzyme specificity. In preparation.
146. Robson, LM, Farrell, RL, Cowan DA and Cary SC. Bacterial diversity in mineral soils associated with mummified seals in the Miers Valley, Eastern Antarctica. Environ. Microbiol. In preparation.
147. Cary, SC, McDonald, I and Cowan, DA. Microbiology of Antarctic cold desert soils. Nature Rev. Microbiol. In preparation.
148. Kowlessur, P, Kwofie, S, Danson, MJ, Sayed, M-Y, Cowan, DA. Engineering aromatic specificity in a thermostable nitrile hydratase. In preparation.
149. van Wyk, J, Danson, MJ, Sayed, M-Y, Cowan, DA. Enhanced thermostability in nitrile hydratase from Geobacillus pallidus by protein evolution. In preparation.
150. Porter D, Cowan DA, Roychoudhury AN. Dissimilatory sulphate reduction in hypersaline coastal pans: Correlation of microbiological and geochemical data. In preparation.
