Postma, Tobias Maria (Date of defense: 2014-03-21)
Cysteine (Cys) is a unique amino acid due to its ability to form reversible covalent disulfide bonds. These bonds cause conformational constraints which make peptides or proteins more rigid and stable. ...
Zamudio Vázquez, Rubí (Date of defense: 2014-02-14)
Triostins are members of the quinoxaline antibiotic family, together with the "prototypical bisintercalator" echinomycin. These molecules display interesting antitumour activities as they inhibit ...
Pelay Gimeno, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-02-15)
Pipecolidepsin A is a cyclodepsipeptide produced by a Homophymia marine sponge that has shown interesting anticancer properties against several human cancer cell lines. From a structural point of view, ...
Góngora Benítez, Miriam (Date of defense: 2013-02-08)
Synthesis of Cys-containing peptides has long been posed as an attractive challenge for peptide chemist. Protecting groups for the nucleophilic beta-thiol group of Cys residues must be stable during ...
Gil Escolano, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
Marine natural products (MNPs) are, undoubtedly, highly valuable starting points for drug-development programs. Generally, MNPs show a well-defined spatial orientation that have evolved for thousands ...
Mas Moruno, Carlos (Date of defense: 2009-03-05)
La sepsis es un síndrome muy complejo de definir, diagnosticar y tratar. La patología de la sepsis se deriva de una respuesta perjudicial del organismo a una infección. La exposición a endotoxinas ...
Herraiz Cobo, Jesús (Date of defense: 2017-07-13)
Mayotlide is a marine peptide isolated by PharmaMar S.A. from Spongia sp.. The sequence of the aminoacids were achieved by MS-MS spectrometry, where two of them were tryptophans. The NMR spectroscopy ...
Ramos Tomillero, Iván (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease that represents one of the principal causes of mortality in developed countries. Due to the social and economic implications of this pathology, tremendous efforts have ...