Tatarski, Miloš (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)
INTRODUCTION: For decades it was known that many species contain embryo specific linker histone H1 variants that replace the somatic H1 during early embryogenesis. This is especially important because ...
Carrasco Rodríguez, Patricia (Date of defense: 2012-03-16)
Carnitine palmitoyl transferase 1 (CPT1) enzymes catalyze the conversion of long-chain acyl-CoA to acyl-carnitines, thus facilitating the entry of long-chain fatty acids to the mitochondria, where they ...
Meo Evoli, Nathalie (Date of defense: 2014-07-07)
The oncogenic properties of E2F1 have been traditionally associated with the role of the oncogene in proliferation, but during the last few years many other functions associated with this family of ...
García Cruz, Roseli Marlen (Date of defense: 2013-10-03)
H-Ras es un protooncogen que codifica para dos proteínas por splicing alternativo la p19 y la p21 (1,2). La p21 presenta mayor tamaño y se localiza en la membrana en donde realiza la función de GTPasa ...
Pulice, Giuseppe (Date of defense: 2014-12-15)
Changes in diet and life style caused an alarming increase in the incidence of obesity, which is considered a major risk factor for the onset of the metabolic syndrome. One of the initial events in ...
Pallara, Chiara (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
Proteins are large biomolecules that play essential functional and structural roles within cells and that typically act through their interaction with other proteins and biomolecules, forming highly ...
Vázquez Lozano, Javier (Date of defense: 2019-09-13)
Three-dimensional ligand-based virtual screening methods have been used for many years in drug discovery, with a variable success depending on different factors, such as the complexity of the target ...
Calderone, Vittorio (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)
Hepatic cirrhosis is a largely diffused pathology caused by alcohol abuse and hepatitis C in developed countries, whereas hepatitis B is the cause in most parts of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. It's ...
Fàbrega Ferrer, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2017-09-28)
The Escherichia coli infecting T7 bacteriophage shares a common dsDNA packaging mechanism with other bacteriophages of the Caudovirales order, Herpesviruses and Adenoviruses. The packaging machinery ...
De Mol, Eva (Date of defense: 2014-06-26)
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer in men after lung cancer. Around 1.1 million men worldwide were diagnosed with PCa in 2012. PCa depends essentially on androgen stimulation for ...