Big complexity in a minimal bacterium 

    Güell Cargol, Marc (Fecha de defensa: 2010-04-16)

    With only 689 genes Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae) is among the simplest known organisms. Because of this simplicity, mycoplasma represents an attractive organism for systems-wide analyses. Such approaches aiming ...

    Characterization of sexual commitment and the early steps of sexual development in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum 

    Llorà Batlle, Oriol (Fecha de defensa: 2019-12-19)

    Transmission of malaria requires that some parasites abandon asexual replication and develop into sexual stages termed gametocytes. The discovery of the transcription factor PfAP2-G as the master regulator of sexual ...

    Engineering mycoplasma species for biotechnological and biomedical applications 

    Montero-Blay, Ariadna (Fecha de defensa: 2021-05-28)

    Els Micoplasmes són un grup de bacteris caracteritzats per tenir genomes mínims, capacitats biosintètiques limitades i una xarxa metabòlica simplificada. Aquesta tesi explora com diferents espècies de Micoplasma poden ser ...

    Structural basis of conjugative DNA transfer mediated by MobM, a prototype of the major relaxase family of Staphylococcus aureus 

    Pluta, Radoslaw (Fecha de defensa: 2014-11-28)

    MobM relaxase from the promiscuous antibiotic resistance plasmid pMV158 is a prototype of the Mob_Pre/MOBV family of relaxases, the major family of relaxases found in Staphylococcus aureus. Staphylococcal infections cause ...