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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
De Raffele, Daria (Date of defense: 2022-01-26)
The main objective of this dissertation was to investigate the structure-function relationship in different designed Retro-Aldolases, to understand not only their catalytic efficiency but to provide ...