García Cordente, Antonio Felipe (Date of defense: 2006-06-22)
In eukaryotes, L-carnitine is involved in energy metabolism, where it facilitates b-oxidation of fatty acids. Carnitine acyltransferases catalyze the reversible conversion of acyl-CoA and carnitine to ...
Amara, Imen (Date of defense: 2012-07-12)
In order to improve our understanding on LEA proteins and their molecular functions in drought tolerance, the present work analyzes in the first place, the composition of LEA subproteomes from Arabidopsis ...
Szekrényi, Anna (Date of defense: 2014-07-25)
Biocatalysis is the chemical transformation of organic substrates by enzymes. This is the driving force of some of the oldest transformations known to humans. Nowadays, methods involving biocatalysts ...
De Sousa Coelho, Ana Luisa (Date of defense: 2012-06-25)
1- ROLE OF SIRT1 IN THE REGULATION OF FATTY ACID OXIDATION AND KETOGENESIS UNDER DIFFERENT NUTRIONAL CHANGES. The homolog of the yeast silencing information regulator2 (SIRT1) has been implicated in ...
Bertran Domingo, M. Teresa (Date of defense: 2012-11-29)
Nek9 is a NIMA-related kinase that is phosphorylated in mitosis and a small pool of it (5%) is activated at the centrosomes by a complex mechanism which has remained elusive until now. Nek6 and Nek7 ...
Recarte Pelz, Pedro (Date of defense: 2014-12-01)
La presente tesis estuvo orientada a analizar el posible papel que pudiera tener el sistema TAM en 3 enfermedades diferentes, y partiendo de la información obtenida, plantear el uso de estas proteínas ...
Miquel Jaureguibeitia, Mercè (Date of defense: 2015-11-23)
En aquesta Tesi s'han estudiat tres gens a partir d'una llibreria de cDNA d'embrions de blat de moro de 10 DAP. Els tres cDNAs escollits van ser: MKA5, que codifica un pèptid antimicrobià de la família ...
Sebastián Muñoz, David (Date of defense: 2006-03-31)
La resistencia a la insulina es un estado patológico que se define como la incapacidad del organismo de responder normalmente a las acciones de la insulina. Este estado está ligado a la obesidad, al ...
Orellana Gavaldà, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2011-02-15)
L'obesitat és una malaltia crònica que es caracteritza per una acumulació ectòpica excessiva de greix associada a la inflamació del fetge i del teixit adipós. A més és el principal factor de risc pel ...
Guzmán López, Karla (Date of defense: 2012-09-27)
Este estudio se enfoca en el metabolismo de alantoina, y su derivado alantoato, como fuentes de nitrógeno en la enterobacteria “Klebsiella pneumoniae”. Los genes implicados en dicho metabolismo están ...