Maíllo Carbajo, Carlos (Date of defense: 2016-06-21)
The Cytoplasmic Polyadenylation Element Binding (CPEB)-family of RNA-binding proteins is composed of four paralogs in mammals, CPEB1-4. The CPEBs control the translation of the targeted mRNAs by modulating ...
Ezquerra González, Artur (Date of defense: 2019-06-27)
Microtubules (MTs) mediate a range of essential cellular processes including cell division, intracellular transport and organelle positioning, by forming specifically adapted arrays. Assembly, maintenance ...
Orellana, Laura (Date of defense: 2014-05-30)
Protein structure, dynamics and function, are inseparable in order to understand the mechanisms of Life at the molecular level. From the structure comes dynamics, and from dynamics many, if not all, ...
Pell Vidal, Núria (Date of defense: 2020-11-19)
Obesity is reaching pandemic dimensions and is an established instigator of many diseases, such as non alcoholic fatty liver disease, the most prevalent liver disease worldwide. Most studies in this ...
Quintana Agustí, Mireia (Date of defense: 2019-09-30)
This thesis addresses three different subjects closely related. First, a phenotypic screening measuring cytotoxicity in the gastric cancer cell line HGC-27 is reported. Next, a targeted-based assay ...
Pérez Cano, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
Computational methods are increasingly important to help to predict and characterize protein interactions. However, most of the efforts so far have focused on protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions, ...
Rodríguez Nuevo, Aida (Date of defense: 2018-04-12)
Opa1 is a mitochondrial dynamics protein responsible for the fusion of the inner mitochondrial membrane, the maintenance of cristae morphology, and involved in mitochondrial DNA stability. In this study ...
Jiménez Panizo, Alba (Date of defense: 2021-12-14)
El receptor de glucocorticoides (GR) es un factor de transcripción que se expresa de forma ubicua y controla procesos esenciales para la vida como el metabolismo, la inflamación y la homeostasis. Aunque ...
Romero Durana, Miguel Alfonso (Date of defense: 2018-11-26)
Proteins play a crucial role in virtually every biological process taking place within our cells. Most of the times, proteins do not participate in these processes alone but forming complexes of two or ...
Martínez Martínez, Arturo (Date of defense: 2022-12-02)
[spa] HERC1 es una E3 ubicuitina ligasa de la familia HECT. Mutaciones en el gen de HERC1 han sido relacionadas con diferentes tipos de cánceres y enfermedades neurodegenerativas. En esta tesis, ...