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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ribas Aulinas, Francesc (Date of defense: 2014-10-02)
Tot i que el fetge és considerat com el principal lloc de producció del FGF21 sistèmic, sobretot en condicions de dejuni i sota control de PPARα, darrerament s’han acumulat diverses evidències que ...
Pedró Pujibet, Laura (Date of defense: 2012-07-16)
Les proteïnes bacterianes associades al nucleoide (NAPs) juguen un paper clau en l’organització, la replicació, la segregació, la reparació i l’expressió del cromosoma. L’estudi de nous membres de les ...
Rodríguez Carbó, Laia (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)
The androgen receptor (AR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor that plays a crucial role in the correct development, differentiation, and function of male reproductive organs. Alterations in the ...
Donoghue, Craig (Date of defense: 2019-07-24)
The thesis consists of two main projects: a) the development of a novel strategy to gain genetic control with spatiotemporal precision, and b) the optimisation of inhibitors of the protein kinase p38α, ...
Guardiola Bagán, Salvador (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and protein surfaces are considered challenging targets for drug discovery. In this field, conventional medicinal chemistry (i.e. small molecules) has largely failed ...