Zagmutt Caroca, Sebastián (Date of defense: 2020-11-09)
Food intake and whole-body energy balance are regulated by the brain through a sophisticated neuronal network located mostly in the hypothalamus. In particular, the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (ARC) ...
Toribio Isaías, Luis Daniel (Date of defense: 2019-12-18)
The aim of this project is to structurally characterize proteins involved in bacterial signal transduction systems by applying X-ray crystallography. Bacteria use signal transduction systems to react ...
Roura Frigolé, Helena (Date of defense: 2018-07-27)
Adenosine deaminase acting on transfer RNA (ADAT) is a human heterodimeric enzyme that catalyzes the deamination of adenosine (A) to inosine (I) at the first position of the anticodon of transfer RNAs ...
Rodríguez Escribà, Marta (Date of defense: 2020-01-21)
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are key adaptor molecules that mediate decoding of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) into proteins by complementary pairing of their anticodons with mRNA codons. tRNAs that undergo adenosine ...
Zamora Ramírez, William J. (Date of defense: 2019-02-22)
Lipophilicity is a key physicochemical descriptor used to understand the biological profile of (bio)organic compounds, xenobiotics and a broad variety of biochemical, pharmacological, and toxicological ...
Sostoa Pomés, Jana de (Date of defense: 2019-05-31)
Oncolytic virus (OV)-based therapies have an emerging role in the treatment of solid tumors, involving both direct cell lysis and immunogenic cell death. Nonetheless, tumor- associated stroma limits the ...
Izquierdo García, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2020-09-14)
Sphingolipids (SLs) are one of the major classes of lipids in eukaryotes. In addition to being essential structural components of cell membranes, SLs also play capital roles as signalling molecules. ...
Jiménez Panizo, Alba (Date of defense: 2021-12-14)
El receptor de glucocorticoides (GR) es un factor de transcripción que se expresa de forma ubicua y controla procesos esenciales para la vida como el metabolismo, la inflamación y la homeostasis. Aunque ...
Félez Sánchez-Ocaña, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-06-29)
Papillomaviruses (PVs) are a numerous family of small dsDNA viruses infecting virtually all mammals. PVs cause infections without triggering a strong immune response, and natural infection provides ...
Albert Colomer, Nerea (Date of defense: 2021-01-18)
Tumor-stroma crosstalk is essential for PDAC formation. Therefore, the stroma, and specifically the carcinoma-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), are the target of therapeutic alternatives to treat highly ...