Arafet Cruz, Kemel (Date of defense: 2017-09-27)
Falcipain-2 and cruzain are cysteine proteases involve in Malaria and Chagas disease. Today, many aspects of both, inhibition mechanism and catalytic mechanism of these enzymes are unclear. Thus, it is ...
Movilla Núñez, Santiago (Date of defense: 2023-01-27)
Since its identification in 1901, by the German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer, Alzheimer's disease has emerged as one of the greatest challenges in pharmaceutical research. In 2019, the cysteine protease ...
Moreno Nascimento, Érica Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-07-25)
La presente Tesis Doctoral constituye un estudio teórico sobre el proceso de inhibición de la acetilcolinesterasa por moléculas que bloquean el sitio activo de la proteína. Se han estudiado un conjunto ...
Bordes Pastor, Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-09-27)
Dihydroxyacetone kinases (DHAKs) catalyse the transfer of the phosphoryl group from adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to dihydroxyacetone (Dha) generating Dha phosphate (Dha-P), a very important specie for ...
Meliá Fortuño, Concepción (Date of defense: 2017-09-28)
A theoretical study of the hydrolysis of a β-lactam antibiotic was carried out in gas phase at different levels of theory. Later, the reaction was studied in solution, describing the sub-set of atoms ...
Royo Valls, Miquel (Date of defense: 2010-10-22)
En esta tesis se utiliza la aproximación de masa efectiva y función envolvente para estudiar teóricamente las propiedades optoelectrónicas de una gran variedad de nanoestructuras semiconductoras, muchas ...
Serrano Aparicio, Natalia (Date of defense: 2022-02-01)
The human 20S proteasome activity and malfunction has been related to numerous diseases and validated as a protein target for inhibition in the treatment of cancer, with three proteasome inhibitors ...
Galmés Ordinas, Miquel Àngel (Date of defense: 2022-01-20)
Two serine hydrolases, Candida antarctica Lipase B (CALB) and para-nitrobenzyl (Bs2) esterase from Bacillus subtilis, were used as a model to study enzyme promiscuity through QM/MM methods and experimental ...
Viciano Gonzalo, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2016-07-22)
The enzyme Cytochrome P450 aromatase plays an essential role in the biosynthesis of estrogens, and its inhibition is an important target for the development of drugs for the treatment of breast cancer. ...
Segarra Ortí, Carlos (Date of defense: 2016-09-06)
En esta Tesis Doctoral se han estudiado teóricamente las propiedades electrónicas y ópticas de electrones y huecos confinados en puntos cuánticos semiconductores mediante el uso del método k·p dentro ...