Parra Acero, Helena (Date of defense: 2019-02-08)
Animal multicellular structure depends on three general mechanisms: cell adhesion, cell communication and cell differentiation. Some of these mechanisms were thought to be specific to animals. Genome ...
López Ortiz, Manuel (Date of defense: 2023-05-24)
[eng] In this thesis manuscript entitled “Single molecule electrochemical studies of photosynthetic complexes” I study the Photosystem I (PSI) protein complex to characterize fundamental processes of ...
Jiménez García, Brian (Date of defense: 2016-07-21)
Computing has pushed a paradigm shift in many disciplines, including structural biology and chemistry. This change has been mainly driven by the increase in performance of computers, the capacity of ...
Quiroga Álvarez, Xarxa (Date of defense: 2021-06-23)
Five years ago, I started walking this path that now seems like an entire life. Although everyone around tried to explain how this would feel, none of their explanations could have match what it has ...
Barradas Bautista, Didier (Date of defense: 2017-03-16)
Proteins are the embodiment of the message encoded in the genes and they act as the building blocks and effector part of the cell. From gene regulation to cell signalling, as well as cell recognition ...
Llamas Pámanes, Ernesto (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
Chloroplasts provide plants with metabolic pathways that are unique among eu- karoytes, including the methylerythritol 4-phosphate pathway (MEP) for the pro- duction of isoprenoids essential for ...
Ciudad Fernández, Sonia (Date of defense: 2016-11-08)
The present thesis is based on the work developed about the use of peptides and small proteins in protein surface molecular recognition. Peptides present several advantages when compared with small ...
Sánchez Martínez, Melchor (Date of defense: 2014-12-09)
Proteins are flexible entities, and thus move. Its function is closely related to the flexibility. To carry out any function is necessary a conformational change. As protein motions imply an exchange ...
Gomes, Tiago Lopes (Date of defense: 2019-11-05)
Signal transduction pathways are essential mechanisms that cells use to perform a myriad of biological processes that when aberrant, can cause serious diseases. Understanding the molecular basis of these ...
Gil Sepúlveda, Victor Alejandro (Date of defense: 2016-06-09)
The pharmaceutical industry is actively looking for new ways of boosting the efficiency and effectiveness of their R&D programmes. The extensive use of computational modeling tools in the drug discovery ...