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 ...
Iglesias i Serret, Daniel (Date of defense: 2005-05-25)
La Tesi Doctoral porta per títol "CONTROL DE PROTEÏNES REGULADORES DE L'APOPTOSI EN CÈL·LULES LEUCÈMIQUES", i ha estat realitzada a la Unitat de Bioquímica del Departament de Ciències Fisiològiques II ...
Pujol Vidal, Maria Magdalena (Date of defense: 2012-07-17)
L’enzim Carnitina palmitoïltransferasa 1 (CPT1) permet l’entrada dels àcids grassos de cadena llarga a la matriu mitocondrial per tal de ser degradats i utilitzats així com a substrat energètic. El ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...