Ben Stinson
| 2005-2009 | B.A./M.S. Biochemistry | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2009-2015 | Ph.D. Biochemistry | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (supervisor: Bob Sauer) |
| 2015-Present | Postdoctoral Fellow | Harvard Medical School (supervisor: Johannes Walter and Joseph Loparo) |
| 2013-2014 | Poitras Predoctoral Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2016-Present | Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
Stinson, B. M., Loparo, J. J. (2021). Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks by the Nonhomologous End Joining Pathway. Annual Review of Biochemistry, 90.
Saunders, R. A., Stinson, B. M., Baker, T. A., Sauer, R. T. (2020). Multistep substrate binding and engagement by the AAA+ ClpXP protease. PNAS. 117(45): 28005-28013.
Fei, X., Bell, T. A., Jenni, S., Stinson, B. M., Baker, T. A., Harrison, S. C., Sauer, R. T. (2020). Structures of the ATP-fueled ClpXP proteolytic machine bound to protein substrate. Elife. 9: e52774.
Stinson, B.M., Moreno, A.T., Walter, J.C., Loparo, J.J. (2019). A Mechanism to Minimize Errors during Non-homologous End Joining. Mol. Cell. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2019.11.018
Saunders, R. A., Stinson, B. M., Sauer, R. T. (2016). Assessing Substrate Engagement by Single Molecules of the AAA+ Protease ClpXP. The FASEB Journal. 30: 597-1.
Stinson, B.M., Baytshtok, V., Schmitz, K.R., Baker, T.A., Sauer, R.T. (2015). Subunit asymmetry and roles of conformational switching in the hexameric AAA+ ring of ClpX. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 22: 411-416.
Cordova, J.C.*, Olivares A.O.*, Shin, Y.*, Stinson, B.M., Calmat, S., Schmitz, K.R., Aubin-Tam, M.E., Baker, T.A., Lang, M.J., Sauer, R.T. (2014). Stochastic but highly coordinated protein unfolding and polypeptide translocation by the ClpXP proteolytic machine. Cell. 158: 647-658
(* these authors contributed equally)
Sauer, R. T., Yosefson, O., Stinson, B. M., Nager, A. R., Glynn, S. E., Schmitz, K. R., … & Baker, T. A. (2014). ClpX, a Stochastic Protein Unfolding and Translocation Machine. Biophysical Journal. 106(2): 444a.
Stinson, B.M.*, Nager, A.R.*, Glynn, S.E.*, Schmitz, K.R., Baker, T.A., Sauer, R.T. (2013). Nucleotide binding and conformational switching in the hexameric ring of a AAA+ machine. Cell. 153: 628-639
(* these authors contributed equally)
Stinson, B. M., Glynn, S. E., Nager, A. R., Baker, T. A., Sauer, R. T. (2012). Eliminating ATP Binding in Specific ClpX Subunits Yields Functional ATP-Fueled Protein-Unfolding Machines. Biophysical Journal. 102(3): 21a.
Johnson S.A.*, Stinson B.M.*, Go M.S.*, Reminick J.I.*, Carmona L.M.*, Fang X.*, Baumgart T. (2010). Temperature dependent phase behavior and protein partitioning in giant plasma membrane vesicles. Biochim. Biophys. Act. – Biomembranes 1798, 1427-1435.
(* these authors contributed equally)