Sammito, Massimo Domenico (Date of defense: 2015-06-22)
ARCIMBOLDO is an ab initio phasing method for macromolecular crystallographic X-ray diffraction data, which combines location of model fragments such as polyalanine α- helices with the program PHASER ...
Dyson Coral, Silvia (Date of defense: 2021-12-14)
Topoisomerase II often produces DNA knots and catenates when its DNA strand passage activity equilibrates the topology of intracellular DNA. However, these DNA entanglements are detrimental for the ...
Sfriso, Pedro (Date of defense: 2016-03-18)
Sequence, structure and dynamics are an indivisible tandem to understand protein function. Luckily, evolution imposed a hierarchical rational between that facilitates the analysis: dynamics are encoded ...
Bagiński, Błażej Mikołaj (Date of defense: 2022-12-15)
[eng] Tumour progression largely depends on the signalling networks that direct cell viability, growth and dissemination (metastasis). Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) and Bone Morphogenetic ...
Ruiz Serra, Victoria Isabel (Date of defense: 2023-11-08)
[eng] Proteins are fundamental building blocks of life, and understanding their structure and function is crucial for many fields of science, from drug discovery to bioengineering. Traditional experimental ...