Tesis doctoral de Berenguer De La Cuesta Felisa Patricia
Directed movement is one of the qualities that is most closely associated with living organisms. Motility requires that the organisms convert chemical energy into mechanical work, thus producing movement. Motility is present at all levels of life: from protein transport, organelle movement inside the cell, and bacteria propulsion; to displacement movement of animals. In all cases, the basic mechanism involved in the mechano-chemical energy transduction is the relative sliding between two families of protein assemblies -one of them is actin-tubulin and the other myosin-kinesin-dynein-. Despite high similarities between all systems, the exact motility mechanisms at the molecular level are not yet fully understood. Hence, the complete understanding of the motility mechanisms constitutes one of the most relevant goals in biology because of its importance in medical research. within this framework, the highly specialized skeletal muscle cells provide a unique probe for the stu
Datos académicos de la tesis doctoral «Structural and functional studies of skeletal muscle using synchrotron radiation x-ray diffraction techniques«
- Título de la tesis: Structural and functional studies of skeletal muscle using synchrotron radiation x-ray diffraction techniques
- Autor: Berenguer De La Cuesta Felisa Patricia
- Universidad: Autónoma de barcelona
- Fecha de lectura de la tesis: 03/03/2008
Dirección y tribunal
- Director de la tesis
- Agneta Svensson
- Tribunal
- Presidente del tribunal: manel Sabés xamaní
- Díaz pereira José Fernando (vocal)
- sebastián Muñoz guerra (vocal)
- Juan huix i gibert jordi (vocal)