Browsing Institute for Microbial Biotechnology & Metagenomics by Author "van Zyl, Leonardo Joaquim"

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    • Novel phages of healthy skin metaviromes from South Africa 

      van Zyl, Leonardo Joaquim; Abrahams, Yoonus; Stander, Emily Amor; Kirby-McCollough, Bronwyn; Jourdain, Roland; Clavaud, Cécile; Breton, Lionel; Trindade, Marla (Nature Publishing Group, 2018)
      Recent skin metagenomic studies have investigated the harbored viral diversity and its possible influence on healthy skin microbial populations, and tried to establish global patterns of skin-phage evolution. However, ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...