EDUCATION Postdoctoral Fellow, Pellman Laboratory, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
PhD, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
BS, Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Tang S., Stokasimov E., Cui Y., Pellman D. (2022) Breakage of cytoplasmic chromosomes by pathological DNA base excision repair. Nature. (in press)
Lee I.J., Stokasimov E., Dempsey N., Varberg J.M., Jacob E., Jaspersen S.L., Pellman D. Factors promoting nuclear envelope assembly independent of the canonical ESCRT pathway. J Cell Biol. 2020 Jun 1;219(6):e201908232.
Arellano-Santoyo H, Geyer EA, Stokasimov E, Chen GY, Su X, Hancock W, Rice LM, Pellman D. A Tubulin Binding Switch Underlies Kip3/Kinesin-8 Depolymerase Activity. Dev Cell. 2017 Jul 10;42(1):37-51.
Buttery SM, Kono K, Stokasimov E, Pellman D. Regulation of the formin Bnr1 by septins anda MARK/Par1-family septin-associated kinase. Mol Biol Cell. 2012 Oct;23(20):4041-53.
Wen KK, McKane M, Stokasimov E, Rubenstein PA. Mutant profilin suppresses mutant actin-dependent mitochondrial phenotype in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem. 2011 Dec 2;286(48):41745-57.
Wen KK, McKane M, Stokasimov E, Fields J, Rubenstein PA, A potential yeast actin allosteric conduit dependent on hydrophobic core residues V76 and W79. J Biol Chem, 2010. 285(27):21185-94.
Stokasimov E., and. Rubenstein PA, Actin isoform-specific conformational differences observed with hydrogen/deuterium exchange and mass spectrometry. J Biol Chem, 2009. 284 (37):25421-30.
Stokasimov E., McKane M, Rubenstein PA, Role of intermonomer ionic bridges in the stabilization of the actin filament. J Biol Chem, 2008. 283 (50):3844-54.