Biography and Research Interest

My current research is focused in how environmental cues shape cell fate and push them into a differentiated state during development.

Publications

Non-Zebrafish Publications

-Gonzalez AC, Abreu C, Pantano S, Comini M, Malacrida L, Egger B, Cantera R, PRIETO D. 2023, A FRET-based cGMP biosensor in Drosophila. microPublication Biology. 10.17912/micropub.biology.000887
-PRIETO D. 2022, Ciencia Abierta: desafíos y oportunidades para Uruguay y el Sur Global. Informatio. Revista Del Instituto De Información De La Facultad De Información Y Comunicación, 27(1), 254-283. https://doi.org/10.35643/Info.27.1.5
-Marquez ME, Sernbo S., Payque E., Uria R., Tosar J.P., Querol J., Berca C., Uriepero A., PRIETO D., Alvarez-Saravia D.; et al. TGF-β/SMAD Pathway Is Modulated by miR-26b-5p: Another Piece in the Puzzle of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Progression. Cancers 2022, 14, 1676. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14071676
-Olivero-Deibe N, Tomé-Poderti L, Carrión F, Bianchi S, Fló M, PRIETO D, Rammauro F, Addiego A, Ibañez N, Portela M, Duran R, Berois M, Pritsch O. 2021, Expression, Purification, and Characterization of Bovine Leukemia Virus-Like Particles Produced in Drosophila S2 Cells. Front. Virol. 1:756559
-PRIETO D. 2020, Uruguay: slashing funds is no way to thank scientists for COVID success, Nature 586(7831):674.
-Baccino-Calace M, PRIETO D, Cantera R, Egger B. 2020, Compartment and cell-type specific hypoxia responses in the developing Drosophila brain. Biol Open. 9(8):bio053629.
-Paruelo, JM., Sierra M, PRIETO D. 2020, Bricks or People? Investing More and Better in Science, a Dilemma for South American Countries. OSF Preprints. doi:10.31219/osf.io/chf5y.
-Brown P, RELISH Consortium, Zhou Y. [PRIETO D as member of the RELISH Consortium] 2019, Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search, Database, Volume 2019, baz085, https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baz085
-PRIETO D. 2018, Make research-paper databases multilingual, Nature 560(7716): 29-29.
-PRIETO D, SEIJA N, URIEPERO A, Souto-Padron T, Oliver C, IRIGOÍN MV, GUILLERMO C, Navarrete MA, LANDONI AI, DIGHIERO G, Gabus R, Giordano M, OPPEZZO P. 2018. LPL protein in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia have different origins in Mutated and Unmutated patients. Advances for a new prognostic marker in CLL. British Journal of Haematology, 182(4):521-525.
-ORTEGA C, PRIETO D, ABREU C, OPPEZZO P, CORREA A. 2018. Multi-compartment and multi-host vector suite for recombinant protein expression and purification. Frontiers in Microbiology 9:1384(1-13).
-PRIETO, D., SOTELO, N., SEIJA, N., SERNBO, S., ABREU, C., DURÁN, R., GIL, M., SICCO, E., IRIGOIN, V., OLIVER, C., LANDONI, A.I., GABUS, R., DIGHIERO, G., OPPEZZO, P., 2017. S100-A9 protein in exosomes from chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells promotes NF-κB activity during disease progression. Blood 130(6):777-788.
-PRIETO, D. & OPPEZZO, P., 2017. Lipoprotein Lipase Expression in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: New Insights into Leukemic Progression. Molecules 22(12):2083(1-9).
-PRIETO, D., APARICIO, G., SOTELO-SILVEIRA, J.R., 2017. Cell migration analysis: A low-cost laboratory experiment for cell and developmental biology courses using keratocytes from fish scales. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education 45(6):475-482.
-PALACIOS, F., PRIETO, D., ABREU, C., RUIZ, S., MORANDE, P., FERNÁNDEZ-CALERO, T., LIBISCH, G., LANDONI, A.I., OPPEZZO, P., 2015. Dissecting chronic lymphocytic leukemia microenvironment signals in patients with unmutated disease: microRNA-22 regulates phosphatase and tensin homolog/AKT/FOXO1 pathway in proliferative leukemic cells. Leukemia & Lymphoma 56(5):1560-1565.
-PALACIOS, F., ABREU, C., PRIETO, D., MORANDE, P., RUIZ, S., FERNÁNDEZ-CALERO, T., NAYA, H., LIBISCH, G., ROBELLO, C., LANDONI, A.I., GABUS, R., DIGHIERO, G., OPPEZZO, P., 2015. Activation of the PI3K/AKT pathway by microRNA-22 results in CLL B-cell proliferation. Leukemia 29(1):115-125.