This is the list of my publications. Listed first are those in which I have been either the first or senior author. The most recent list of published work can be found in Google Scholar

As first/senior author

Protasio AV§, Rawlinson KA, Miska EA, Berriman M, Rinaldi G.(§ Corresponding author). Evidence for transposable element control by Argonautes in a parasitic flatworm lacking the piRNA pathway. bioRxiv

Protasio AV§, van Dongen S, Collins J, Quintais L, Ribeiro D, et al.(§ Corresponding author). MiRNAs miR-277/4989 regulate transcriptional landscape during juvenile to adult transition in the parasitic helminth Schistosoma mansoni. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017 May 23;11(5):e0005559. PMID: 23516644.

Protasio AV, Dunne DW, Berriman M. Comparative study of transcriptome profiles of mechanical and skin-transformed Schistosoma mansoni schistosomula.. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013 Mar;7(3):e2091. PMID: 23516644.

Protasio AV}§, Tsai IJ§, Babbage A, De Silva N, Davidson C, et al. (§ joint first author). A systematically improved high quality genome and transcriptome of the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012 Jan;6(1):e1455.. PMID:22253936

Book Chapter, Cantacessi C and Protasio AV. (2018) ``Fundamentals of Bioinformatics, Principles and Techniques of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’’. Cambridge University Press, 8th edition. ISBN: 9781316614761

In collaboration

Marelli S, Williamson JC, Protasio AV, Naamati A, Greenwood JED, Deane JE, Lehner PJ, Matheson NJ. Antagonism of PP2A is an independent and conserved function of HIV-1 Vif and causes cell cycle arrest. eLife 2020 PMID: 32292164.

Douse CH, Tchasovnikarova IA, Timms RT, Protasio AV, Seczynska M, Prigozhin DM, Albecka A, Wagstaff J, Williamson JC, Freund SWV, Lehner PJ, Modis Y. TASOR is a pseudo-PARP that directs HUSH complex assembly and epigenetic transposon control. Nat Commun 2020

Wangwiwatsin A, Protasio AV, Wilson S, Owusu C, Holroyd NE, Sanders MJ, Keane J, Doenhoff MJ, Rinaldi G, Berriman M. Transcriptome of the parasitic flatworm Schistosoma mansoni during intra-mammalian development. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020

Crosnier C, Protasio AV, Rinaldi G, Wilson S, Berriman M, Wright GJ. A library of cell-surface and secreted proteins from Schistosoma mansoni identifies early serological markers of infection. J Infect Dis. 2020

Hernández-Goenaga J, López-Abán J, Protasio AV, Vicente Santiago B, Del Olmo E, Vanegas M, Fernández-Soto P, Patarroyo MA, Muro A. Peptides Derived of Kunitz-Type Serine Protease Inhibitor as Potential Vaccine Against Experimental Schistosomiasis. Front Immunol. 2019. PMID: 31736947.

Suttiprapa S, Rinaldi G, Tsai IJ, Mann VH, Dubrovsky L, Yan HB, Holroyd N,Huckvale T, Durrant C, Protasio AV, Pushkarsky T, Iordanskiy S, Berriman M, Bukrinsky MI, Brindley PJ. HIV-1 Integrates Widely throughout the Genome of the Human Blood Fluke Schistosoma mansoni PLoS Pathog. 2016. PMID: 27764257.

Lamolle G, Protasio AV, Iriarte A, Jara E, Simon D, Musto, H. An isochore-like structure in the genome of the flatworm Schistosoma mansoni Genome Biol Evol. 2016. PMID:27435793.

Winter AD, Gillan V, Maitland K, Emes RD, Roberts B, McCormack G, Weir W, Protasio AV, Holroyd N, Berriman M, Britton C, Devaney E. A novel member of the let-7 microRNA family is associated with developmental transitions in filarial nematode parasites. BMC Genomics. 2015. PMID: 25896062.

Horn M, Fajtová P, Rojo Arreola L, Ulrychová L, Bartošová-Sojková P, Franta Z, Protasio AV, Opavsky D, Vondrášek J, McKerrow JH, Mareš M, Caffrey CR, Dvorák J Trypsin- and Chymotrypsin-like serine proteases in Schistosoma mansoni– `the undiscovered country’. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014. PMID: 24676141.

Zerlotini A, Aguiar E, Yu F, Xu H, Li Y, Young N, Gasser R, Protasio AV, Berriman M, Roos D, Kissinger J, Oliveira G. SchistoDB: an updated genome resource for the three key schistosomes of humans.. Nucleic Acids Res. 2013. PMID: 23161692.

Fitzsimmons CM, Jones FM, Pinot de Moira A, Protasio AV, Khalife J, Dickinson HA, Tukahebwa EM, Dunne DW. Progressive cross-reactivity in IgE responses: an explanation for the slow development of human immunity to schistosomiasis? Infect Immun. 2012. PMID: 23006852.

Parikh PP, Zheng J, Logan-Klumper F, Stoeckert CJ Jr, Louis C, Topalis P, Protasio AV, Sheth AP, Carrington M, Berriman M, Sahoo SS. The Ontology for Parasite Lifecycle (OPL): towards a consistent vocabulary of lifecycle stages in parasitic organisms. J Biomed Semantics. 2012. PMID: 22621763.

Laing R, Hunt M, Protasio AV, Saunders G, Mungall K, et al. Annotation of two large contiguous regions from the Haemonchus contortus genome using RNA-seq and comparative analysis with Caenorhabditis elegans.PLoS One. 2011;6(8):e23216.. PMID: 21858033.

Otero L, Bonilla M, Protasio AV, Ferández C, Gladyshev VN, Salinas G. Thioredoxin and glutathione systems differ in parasitic and free-living platyhelminths. BMC Genomics. 2010. PMID: 20385027.

Berriman M, Haas BJ, LoVerde PT, Wilson RA, Dillon GP, … Protasio AV … et al. The genome of the blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni. Nature. 2009. PMID: 19606141.

Fitzpatrick JM, Protasio AV, McArdle AJ, Williams GA, Johnston DA, Hoffmann KF. Use of genomic DNA as an indirect reference for identifying gender-associated transcripts in morphologically identical, but chromosomally distinct, Schistosoma mansoni cercariae. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008. PMID: 18941520.

Bonilla M, Denicola A, Novoselov SV, Turanov AA, Protasio A, Izmendi D, Gladyshev VN, Salinas G. Platyhelminth mitochondrial and cytosolic redox homeostasis is controlled by a single thioredoxin glutathione reductase and dependent on selenium and glutathione. J Biol Chem. 2008. PMID: 18408002.