Valls Margarit, Maria (Date of defense: 2017-07-07)
Ischemic heart disease is a major cause of human death worldwide owing to the heart minimal ability to repair following injury. Other than heart transplantation, there are currently no effective or ...
Guillén Boixet, Jordina (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)
Cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding proteins (CPEBs) are a family of RNA-binding proteins essential for the translational regulation of mRNAs in various biological contexts. CPEBs recognize CPE ...
García Cordente, Antonio Felipe (Date of defense: 2006-06-22)
In eukaryotes, L-carnitine is involved in energy metabolism, where it facilitates b-oxidation of fatty acids. Carnitine acyltransferases catalyze the reversible conversion of acyl-CoA and carnitine to ...
Amara, Imen (Date of defense: 2012-07-12)
In order to improve our understanding on LEA proteins and their molecular functions in drought tolerance, the present work analyzes in the first place, the composition of LEA subproteomes from Arabidopsis ...
Zapata Garin, Claire-Alix (Date of defense: 2018-06-01)
Glycogen is a branched polysaccharide that serves as an intracellular store of glucose that can be mobilized to maintain homeostasis or to fuel cellular processes. Glycogen is synthesized by glycogen ...
Szekrényi, Anna (Date of defense: 2014-07-25)
Biocatalysis is the chemical transformation of organic substrates by enzymes. This is the driving force of some of the oldest transformations known to humans. Nowadays, methods involving biocatalysts ...
De Sousa Coelho, Ana Luisa (Date of defense: 2012-06-25)
1- ROLE OF SIRT1 IN THE REGULATION OF FATTY ACID OXIDATION AND KETOGENESIS UNDER DIFFERENT NUTRIONAL CHANGES. The homolog of the yeast silencing information regulator2 (SIRT1) has been implicated in ...
Bertran Domingo, M. Teresa (Date of defense: 2012-11-29)
Nek9 is a NIMA-related kinase that is phosphorylated in mitosis and a small pool of it (5%) is activated at the centrosomes by a complex mechanism which has remained elusive until now. Nek6 and Nek7 ...
Chakraborty, Arka (Date of defense: 2016-07-08)
Mitochondria are intracellular double-membrane bound organelles in eukaryotic cells that act as the major suppliers of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). They possess their own DNA (mtDNA) that codes for ...
Mas del Molino, Ezequiel (Date of defense: 2011-02-25)
El ATP es una molécula ampliamente conocida por su papel en muchas funciones como la homeostasis celular, el mantenimiento de gradientes iónicos, el mantenimiento del pH en gránulos secretores, el ...