Publications:
1. Vitali, J. (1986) Investigation of the Crystal Structures of Nucleosides Containing Sulfur. Dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 253 pp.
2. Vitali, J., Young, W.W., Schatz, V.B., Sobottka, S.E. and Kretsinger, R.H. (1987) Crystal Structure of an Anti-Lewis a Fab Determined by Molecular Replacement Methods. J. Mol. Biol. 198, 351-355.
3. Vitali, J. (1990) Structure of 2,2'-Anhydro-3'-O-acetyl-2'-thio-1-ß-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine Hydrochloride. J. Cryst. Spec. Res. 20, 251-259.
4. Vitali, J., Robbins, A.H., Almo, S.C. and Tilton, R.F. (1991) Using Xenon as a Heavy Atom for Determining Phases in Sperm Whale Metmyoglobin. J. Appl. Cryst. 24, 931-935.
5. Vitali, J., Martin, P.D., Malkowski, M.G., Robertson, W.D., Lazar, J.B., Winant, R.C., Johnson, P.H. and Edwards, B.F.P. (1992) The Structure of a Complex of Bovine ¿-Thrombin and Recombinant Hirudin at 2.8 Å Resolution. J. Biol. Chem. 267, 17670-17678.
6. Doyle, M.A., Vitali, J., Wittenberg, J.B., Vinogradov, S.N., Walz, D.A., Edwards, B.F.P. and Martin, P.D. (1994) Crystallization of Hemoglobins II and III of the Symbiont Harboring Clam Lucina Pectinata. Acta Crystallographica D50, 757-759.
7. Vitali, J., Martin, P.D., Malkowski, M.G., Olsen, C.M., Johnson, P.H. and Edwards, B.F.P. (1996) Crystal Structure of a Bovine Thrombin:Hirudin51-65 Complex Determined by a Combination of Molecular Replacement and Graphics. Incorporation of Known Structural Information in Molecular Replacement. Acta Crystallographica D52, 453-464.
8. Vitali, J., Schick, B., Kester, H., Visser, J., and Jurnak, F. (1998) The Three-dimensional Structure of Aspergillus niger Pectin Lyase B, at 1.7 Å resolution. Plant Physiology 116, 69-80.
9. Heffron, S., Moe, G.R., Sieber, V., Mengaud, J., Cossart, P., Vitali, J. and Jurnak, F. (1998) Sequence Profile of the Parallel ß Helix in the Pectate Lyase Superfamily. J. of Structural Biology 122, 223-235.
10. Vitali, J., Carroll, D., Gopal, R. and Hackert, M.L. (1999) The Three-dimensional Structure of the Gly121Tyr Dimeric Form of Ornithine Decarboxylase from Lactobacillus 30a. Acta Crystallographica D55, 1978-1985.
11. Colaneri, M.J., Vitali, J. and Peisach, J. (2000) An ESEEM Study of Multi-Crystalline Cu2+-Insulin: Effects of Cd2+ on the Nuclear Quadrupole Interaction of the Cu2+ Coordinated Imidazole Remote Nitrogen. Biochemistry 39, 584-591.
12. Vitali, J., Vorobyova, T., Webster, G. and Kantrowitz, E.R. (2000) Crystallization and Structure Determination of the Catalytic Trimer of Methanococcus Jannaschii Aspartate Transcarbamoylase. Acta Crystallographica D56, 1061-1063.
13. Vitali, J., Ding, J., Jiang, J., Zhang, Y., Krainer, A.R. and Xu, R.-M. (2002) Correlated Alternative Side-chain Conformations in the RNA-Recognition Motif of Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein A1. Nucleic Acids Res. 30, 1531-1538.
14. Vitali, J., Colaneri, M.J. and Kantrowitz, E.R. (2008) Crystal Structure of the Catalytic Trimer of Methanococcus jannaschii Aspartate Transcarbamoylase. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics, 71, 1324-1334.
15. Vitali, J. and Colaneri, M.J. (2008) Structure of the Catalytic Trimer of Methanococcus jannaschii Aspartate Transcarbamoylase in an Orthorhombic Crystal Form. Acta Crystallographica F64, 776-780.
16. Colaneri, M.J., Vitali, J. and Peisach, J. (2009) Structural Aspects of Copper Doped Amino Acid Crystals Revealed by EPR/ENDOR Spectroscopic and Quantum Mechanical DFT Calculations. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 113, 5700-5709.
17. Vitali, J., Singh, A.K., Soares, A.S. and Colaneri, M.J. (2012) Structure of the catalytic chain of Methanococcus jannaschii aspartate transcarbamoylase in a hexagonal crystal form: insights into the path of carbamoyl phosphate to the active site of the enzyme. Acta Crystallographica F68, 527-534.
18. Colaneri, M.J., Vitali, J. and Kirschbaum, K. (2013) An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Study of Copper Hopping in Doped Bis(L-histidinato)cadmium Dihydrate. Journal of Physical Chemistry A117, 3414-3427.
19. Colaneri, M.J. and Vitali, J. (2014) Copper Dynamics in Doped Metal-Bis(histidine) Complexes. Journal of Physical Chemistry A118, 4688-4694.
20. Colaneri, M.J., Teat, S. J. and Vitali, J. (2015) Models for Copper Dynamic Behavior in Doped Cadmium DL-Histidine Crystals: Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and Crystallographic Analysis. Journal of Physical Chemistry A119, 11119-11127.
21. Vitali, J., Singh, A.K. and Colaneri, M.J. (2017) Characterization of the Dihydroorotase from Methanococcus jannaschii. The Protein Journal 36, 361-373.
22. Colaneri, M.J. and Vitali, J. (2018) Probing Axial Water Bound to Copper in Tutton Salt Using Single Crystal 17O-ESEEM Spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry A122, 6214-6224.
23. Colaneri, M.J., Teat, S. J. and Vitali, J. (2020) Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Characteristics and Crystal Structure of a Tutton Salt analog: Copper doped Cadmium Creatininium Sulfate. Journal of Physical Chemistry A124, 2242-2252.
24. Colaneri, M.J. and Vitali, J. (2021) Effects of the Lattice Field on the Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Copper-Hexahydrate in Tutton Salts. Journal of Physical Chemistry A125, 3268-3278.
25. Ayotte, S.A. and Vitali, J. (2022) Enzyme kinetics of Recombinant Dihydroorotase from Methanococclus jannaschii. Ohio Journal of Science, 122(2), 47-51.
26. Vitali, J., Nix, J.C., Newman, H.E. and Colaneri, M.J. (2023) Crystal Structure of Methanococcus jannaschii Dihydroorotase. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics 91, 91-98. doi: 10.1002/prot.26412.
PROTEIN DATA BANK ENTRIES
https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb7UOF/pdb: M. jannaschii Dihydroorotase, 2022
https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb4EKN/pdb: catalytic chain of M. jannaschii Aspartate Transcarbamoylase in a hexagonal crystal form, 2012
http://doi.org/10.2210/pdb3e2p/pdb: Catalytic subunit of M. Jannaschii aspartate transcarbamoylase in an orthorhombic crystal form, 2009
https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb2RGW/pdb: Catalytic subunit of M. jannaschii Aspartate Transcarbamoylase in a monoclinic crystal form, 2008
https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb1L3K/pdb: UP1, the two RNA-recognition motif domain of HNRNP A1, 2002
https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb1C4K/pdb: Ornithine Decarboxylase mutant (G121Y), 2000
https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb1QCX/pdb: Pectin Lyase B, 1999
https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb1VIT/pdb: Thrombin-hirudin 51-65 complex, 1997
https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb1HRT/pdb: Complex of bovine alpha-thrombin and recombinant hirudin, 1994
Over 70 abstracts and presentations in national and international meetings