Dr Giuseppe Balistreri
Adjunct Associate Professor
Queensland Brain Institute

Publications
Journal Articles
Zhu, Yanshan, Chew, Keng Yih, Wu, Melanie, Karawita, Anjana C., McCallum, Georgina, Steele, Lauren E., Yamamoto, Ayaho, Labzin, Larisa I., Yarlagadda, Tejasri, Khromykh, Alexander A., Wang, Xiaohui, Sng, Julian D. J., Stocks, Claudia J., Xia, Yao, Kollmann, Tobias R., Martino, David, Joensuu, Merja, Meunier, Frédéric A., Balistreri, Giuseppe, Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Helle, Bowen, Asha C., Kicic, Anthony, Sly, Peter D., Spann, Kirsten M. and Short, Kirsty R. (2022). Ancestral SARS-CoV-2, but not Omicron, replicates less efficiently in primary pediatric nasal epithelial cells. PLoS Biology, 20 (8) e3001728, e3001728. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001728
Serra, Angela, Fratello, Michele, Federico, Antonio, Ojha, Ravi, Provenzani, Riccardo, Tasnadi, Ervin, Cattelani, Luca, del Giudice, Giusy, Kinaret, Pia A.S., Saarimäki, Laura A., Pavel, Alisa, Kuivanen, Suvi, Cerullo, Vincenzo, Vapalahti, Olli, Horvath, Peter, Di Lieto, Antonio, Yli-Kauhaluoma, Jari, Balistreri, Giuseppe and Greco, Dario (2022). Computationally prioritized drugs inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection and syncytia formation. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 23 (1) bbab507, 1-20. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbab507
Balistreri, Giuseppe, Yamauchi, Yohei and Teesalu, Tambet (2021). A widespread viral entry mechanism: the C-end Rule motif–neuropilin receptor interaction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118 (49) e2112457118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2112457118
Contu, Lara, Balistreri, Giuseppe, Domanski, Michal, Uldry, Anne-Christine and Mühlemann, Oliver (2021). Characterisation of the Semliki Forest Virus-host cell interactome reveals the viral capsid protein as an inhibitor of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. PLoS Pathogens, 17 (5) e1009603, 1-29. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009603
Cantuti-Castelvetri, Ludovico, Ojha, Ravi, Pedro, Liliana D., Djannatian, Minou, Franz, Jonas, Kuivanen, Suvi, van der Meer, Franziska, Kallio, Katri, Kaya, Tuğberk, Anastasina, Maria, Smura, Teemu, Levanov, Lev, Szirovicza, Leonora, Tobi, Allan, Kallio-Kokko, Hannimari, Österlund, Pamela, Joensuu, Merja, Meunier, Frédéric A., Butcher, Sarah J., Winkler, Martin Sebastian, Mollenhauer, Brit, Helenius, Ari, Gokce, Ozgun, Teesalu, Tambet, Hepojoki, Jussi, Vapalahti, Olli, Stadelmann, Christine, Balistreri, Giuseppe and Simons, Mikael (2020). Neuropilin-1 facilitates SARS-CoV-2 cell entry and infectivity. Science, 370 (6518) abd2985, 856-860. doi: 10.1126/science.abd2985