Paradís Bas, Marta (Date of defense: 2015-05-15)
The known as "difficult peptides", as well as those sequences that aggregate in solution, are some of those molecules with high applicability as nanomaterials or even in medicine field. This thesis has ...
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 ...
Grau Campistany, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2014-07-17)
The global emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria is an important public health issue. However, the antimicrobial pipeline remains unacceptably lean, in fact over the last 25 years, the ...
Ciudad Fernández, Sonia (Date of defense: 2016-11-08)
The present thesis is based on the work developed about the use of peptides and small proteins in protein surface molecular recognition. Peptides present several advantages when compared with small ...