Millán Ariño, Lluís (Date of defense: 2013-11-25)
Seven linker histone H1 variants exist in human somatic cells with distinct prevalence among cell types and during differentiation. Despite being key chromatin structural components, it remains elusive ...
Lloret Llinares, Marta (Date of defense: 2011-05-17)
La metilació de les lisines de les histones està implicada en les funcions associades a la cromatina, com l’expressió gènica o la formació d’heterocromatina. És una modificació covalent afegida per ...
Mendieta Esteban, Julen (Date of defense: 2020-12-10)
Genome spatial organisation and transcriptional activity are tightly coordinated to ensure the correct function of the cell. Thus, proper understanding of the chromatin organisation is needed to deepen ...
Arcas Mantas, Aida (Date of defense: 2013-04-25)
The DNA Damage response is a crucial signaling network that preserves genome integrity. This network is an ensemble of distinct but often overlapping sub-networks, where participating components exert ...
Fraile Beneitez, Rodrigo (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)
Eukaryotic DNA is condensed inside the nucleus, compacted into chromatin. The structure of chromatin is dynamic, and its accessibility to cellular machinery can be altered depending on the level of ...
Font Mateu, Jofre (Date of defense: 2016-12-05)
El receptor de la progesterona és un regulador clau per la proliferació de les cèl·lules de càncer de mama dependents d’hormona. El mecanisme d’acció del PR ha tingut un paper important en la resolució ...
Sierra Noguera, Cèsar (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)
The presence of an extra copy of Human Chromosome 21 (HSA21) in Down syndrome (DS) is one of the most complex genetic perturbations compatible with life and is the most common genetic cause of intellectual ...
Demajo Meseguer, Santiago (Date of defense: 2014-02-21)
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is frequently linked to epigenetic abnormalities and deregulation of gene transcription, which lead to aberrant cell proliferation and accumulation of undifferentiated ...
Iannone, Camilla (Date of defense: 2014-05-23)
Intron removal is a necessary step for expression of most genes in higher eukaryotes, and alternative splice selection is a highly regulated mechanism that endows a single gene with the possibility to ...
Mugianesi, Francesca (Date of defense: 2022-06-02)
Gene expression, epigenetic states and topological conformation are three fundamental aspects of genome organization that are tightly regulated in space and time. Epigenetic states, protein occupancy ...