Olivares Polo, Alba (Date of defense: 2011-11-25)
Els contaminants ambientals capaços d’unir-se al Receptor d’hidrocarburs d’Aril i induir la seva activació ectòpica són molt diversos i es troben àmpliament distribuïts per tota la biosfera. L’exposició ...
Meca-Cortés, Oscar (Date of defense: 2014-12-17)
The transcription factor SOX2 is a key determinant of stem cell properties, also involved in the initiation, maintenance and progression of several human cancers. By studying the in ...
Batlle Lacort, Marta (Date of defense: 2010-10-21)
La vigilina és una proteïna molt conservada al llarg de l'evolució que s'ha vist implicada en dues grans funcions: la regulació de diferents aspectes del RNA i la contribució a la formació i manteniment ...
Aguilera Gil, Maria Laura (Date of defense: 2010-03-10)
El tracte gastrointestinal de l’individu humà es troba colonitzat per la microbiota intestinal. L’epiteli intestinal actua com a barrera física per impedir que els bacteris accedeixin a òrgans essencials, ...
Celià Terrassa, Antoni (Date of defense: 2012-05-14)
This Doctoral Thesis project is part of a broader research program whose global aim is to better understand key molecular and cellular events in tumor metastasis, in particular those associated with ...
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 ...