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 ...
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., ...
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 ...
Guillén Boixet, Jordina (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)
Cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding proteins (CPEBs) are a family of RNA-binding proteins essential for the translational regulation of mRNAs in various biological contexts. CPEBs recognize CPE ...
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 ...
Martinez Cristobal, Paula (Date of defense: 2016-12-01)
Protein homeostasis (proteostasis) results from the fine regulation of synthesis and degradation. The nuclear cofactor DOR/TP53INP2 was identified originally as a protein expressed in PML of nuclear ...
Pallara, Chiara (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
Proteins are large biomolecules that play essential functional and structural roles within cells and that typically act through their interaction with other proteins and biomolecules, forming highly ...