• Target characterization and ligand design directed at deoxyuridine 5'-triphospate nucleotidohydrolase 

      Liikanen, Laura Elina (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-07-01)
      dUTPase is an important enzyme in DNA metabolism. It can be thought of as a gate keeper for apoptosis and is therefore an attractive target when trying to kill malign cells which cause disease in the human body. dUTPase has been found to be an important drug target in diseases such as cancer and malaria, to mention two. Due to problems with drug resistance in existing treatments, the search for new ...
    • The unique disulfide linked activation loop of DYRK kinases and possible redox activity control 

      Dyrendalsli, Maja Bele (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-06-15)
      The cysteine of HCD (C286) in DYRK1A is involved in disulfide bridge formation with a cysteine (C312) in the DFGSSC sequence. The purpose of this project was to investigate how the state of the disulfide bridge would affect enzyme catalytic and ligand binding properties of the protein kinase. A mutant, DYRK1A C312A, was thus designed to eliminate the disulfide bridge. The mutant was expressed and ...
    • Vertical Diversity-Oriented Synthesis with Dibenzylideneacetones. Multivariate Optimization and Diversity Exploration. 

      Buhire, Phenias (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-18)
      DOS was planned from dibenzylideneacetone to generate compound library with structural diversity, which can undergo further transformations. In the presented work, dibenzylideneacetone was cyclized under Robinson Annulation reaction. The resulting cyclization product was optimized using Multivariate response surface method. Response surface analysis helped to determine both significant variables ...