23 resultados para Estrutura celular
em SAPIENTIA - Universidade do Algarve - Portugal
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Dissertação de Mestrado, Oncobiologia - Mecanismos Moleculares do Cancro, Departamento de Ciências Biomédicas e Medicina, Universidade do Algarve, 2016
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Tese dout., Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, 2006
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Tese dout., Biologia, Universidade do Algarve, 2005
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Tese dout., Ciências e Tecnologias do Ambiente, 2009, Universidade do Algarve
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O elevado grau de fluidez da quadra tradicional – que participa da mutabilidade e flexibilidade características de toda a literatura de transmissão oral – faz dela um espaço complexo, movediço e resistente a quadros taxinómicos rígidos ou definitivos. Partindo desse pressuposto, quisemos determinar neste artigo as principais linhas de instabilidade desta forma poética e os seus principais processos de edificação, nos planos estrutural e formal. Procurámos demonstrar que a quadra encerra uma força de conflito decorrente de uma dialéctica de abertura e de fechamento, relacionada com impulsos quer de condensação e fixação quer de intensificação ou derivação de sentidos.
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Dissertação de mest., Finanças Empresariais, Faculdade de Economia, Univ. do Algarve, 2003
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Dissertação de mest., Arquitectura Paisagista, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Univ. do Algarve, 2010
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Dissertação de mest., Finanças Empresariais, Faculdade de Economia, Univ. do Algarve, 2003
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Dissertação de mest., Gestão Empresarial, Faculdade de Economia, Univ. do Algarve, 2001
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Dissertação de mest., Biologia Marinha (Ecologia e Conservação Marinha), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Univ. do Algarve, 2011
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Tese de dout., Bioquímica (Biologia Celular e Molecular), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Univ. do Algarve, 2010
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Dissertação de mest., Geomática (Ciências da Informação Geográfica), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Univ. do Algarve, 2011
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Dissertação de mest., Arquitectura Paisagista, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Univ. do Algarve, 2011
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Epithelial tissues are essential during morphogenesis and organogenesis. During development, epithelial tissues undergo several different remodeling processes, from cell intercalation to cell change shape. An epithelial cell has a highly polarized structure, which is important to maintain tissue integrity. The mechanisms that regulate and maintain apicobasal polarity and epithelial integrity are mostly conserved among all species and in different tissues within the same organism. aPKC-PAR complex localizes in the apical domain of polarized cells, and its function is essential for apicobasal polarization and epithelial integrity. In this work we characterized two novel alleles of aPKC: a temperature sensitive allele (aPKCTS), which has a point mutation on a kinase domain, and another allele with a point mutation on a highly conserved amino acid within the PB1 domain of aPKC (aPKCPB1). Analysis of the aPKCTS mutant phenotypes, lead us to propose that during development different epithelial tissues have differential requirements of aPKC activity. More specifically, our work suggests de novo formation of adherens junctions (AJs) is particularly sensitive to sub-optimal levels of apkc activity. Analysis of the aPKCPB1 allele, suggests that aPKC is likely to have an apical structural function mostly independent of its kinase activity. Altogether our work suggests that although loss of aPKC function is associated to similar epithelial phenotypes (e.g., loss of apicobasal polarization and epithelial integrity), the requirements of aPKC activity within these tissues are nevertheless likely to vary.
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Aggregation and fibrillation of proteins have a great importance in medicine and industry. Misfolding and aggregation are the basis of many neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer and Parkinson. Osmolytes are molecules that can accumulate within cells and act as protective agents and they can inclusively act as protein stabilizers when cells are exposed to stress conditions. Osmolytes can also act as protein stabilizers in vitro. In this work, two different proteins were studied, the ribosomal protein from Thermus thermophilus and the mouse prion protein. The existence of an unstructured N-terminal on the prion protein does not affect its stability. The effect of the osmolyte sucrose on the fibrillation and stabilization of these two proteins was studied through kinectic and equilibrium measurements. It was shown that sucrose is able to compact the native structure of S6 protein in fibrillization conditions. Sucrose affects also folding and unfolding kinetic of S6 protein, delaying unfolding and increasing folding rate constants. The mechanism of stabilization by sucrose is non-specific because it is distributed for all protein structure, as it was demonstrated by a protein engineering approach. Sucrose delays the process of formation and elongation of S6 and prion protein from mouse. This delay is the result of the compaction of the native structure refered above. However, cellular toxicity studies have shown that fibrils formed in the presence of sucrose are more toxic to neuronal cells.