Garcia Cabau, Carla (Date of defense: 2022-05-31)
Intrinsically disordered (ID) proteins or regions are protein sequences that lack stable secondary and tertiary structures. ID proteins are particularly prone to undergo liquid- liquid phase separation ...
Sancho Jodar, Ferran (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
Enzyme catalysis has been scaled up for several industrial sectors during the last decades, including pharmaceutics, food and beverages. This raised the interest of other industries such as energy or ...
Chiesa, Giulio (Date of defense: 2015-12-11)
Spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a member of the polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion diseases family; the most famous of which is Huntington disease (HD). SBMA is caused by the expansion of the ...
Szulc, Elizbieta Maria (Date of defense: 2020-01-09)
Androgen receptor is a transcription factor that plays a key role in prostate cancer development and progression. Its N-terminal intrinsically disordered activation domain is an example of ill- structured ...
Solé i Codina, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-12-13)
Voltage gated potassium channels (Kv) play important roles in different biological process such as generation and propagation of the nerve pulse and the cardiac action potential, promotion of insulin ...
Escobedo Pascual, Albert (Date of defense: 2014-11-06)
Nedd4L is a HECT-type E3 ubiquitin ligase (it covalently binds ubiquitin molecules before transferring them to the final substrate). Ubiquitination is a posttranslational modification (PTM) that labels ...
Nicolàs i Aragó, Adrià (Date of defense: 2022-12-14)
[eng] L-type amino acid transporters play key roles in human physiology and are involved in several human pathologies such as primary inherited aminoacidurias (Feliubadaló et al., 1999; Torrents et al., ...
González Velasco, Lorena (Date of defense: 2021-09-14)
Non-canonical activation of p38α MAPK has been associated to cardiomyocyte death in several cardiovascular pathologies, such as myocardial ischaemia-reper- fusion injury. Unfortunately, current p38α ...
Garcia Pindado, Júlia (Date of defense: 2017-05-12)
The present thesis is based on the development and optimization of a solid-phase strategy to prepare biaryl bicyclic pentapeptides. Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions were used to obtain the biaryl ...
Hernaiz Llorens, Marc (Date of defense: 2019-11-25)
During brain development, UNC5 receptors play a key role in controlling axonal extension through their sensing of the guidance molecule Netrin-1. The correct positioning of receptors into specific ...