School:
School of Arts & Sciences
Department:
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Office Location:
JH 272
Office Hours:
Educational Background
- Ph.D. Chemistry, June 2000, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- M.S. Physics of Molecular and Biological Systems, July 1994, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Professional Experience
- Assistant & Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey
- Assistant & Associate Researcher at Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
- Postdoctoral fellow at Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Research / Creativity Interest Area
PUBLICATIONS
- Park MS, Bitto E, Kim KR, Bingman CA, Miller MD, Kim HJ, Han BW, Phillips GN Jr.: “Crystal structure of human protein N-terminal glutamine amidohydrolase, an initial component of the N-end rule pathway.”, PLoS One. 2014; 9(10):e111142. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111142
- Grobosky CL, Lopez JB, Rennie S, Skopelitis DJ, Wiest AT, Bingman CA, Bitto E.: “Structural basis of substrate specificity and selectivity of murine cytosolic 5′-nucleotidase III.” J Mol Biol. 2012 Nov 2;423(4):540-54.
- Bitto E, Kim DJ, Bingman CA, Kim HJ, Han BW, Phillips GN Jr. “Crystal structure of tandem ACT domain-containing protein ACTP from Galdieria sulphuraria.”, Proteins. 2012; 80(8):2105-9;
- Bae E, Bitto E, Bingman, Allard ST, Wesenberg GE, Wrobel RL, Fox BG, Phillips GN Jr.:”Crystal Structure of a Putative Histidine-containing Phosphotransfer Protein from Oryza saliva” J Korean Soc Appl Biol Chem 2010; 53(6), 852-856
- Bae E, Bitto E, Bingman CA, McCoy JG, Wesenberg GE, Phillips GN Jr.:”Crystal structure of an eIF4G-like protein from Danio rerio.”, Proteins. 2010; 78(7):1803-6.
- Bianchetti CM, Blouin GC, Bitto E, Olson JS, Phillips GN Jr.: “The structure and NO binding properties of the nitrophorin-like heme-binding protein from Arabidopsis thaliana gene locus At1g79260.1”, Proteins. 2010; 78(4):917-31.
- Bitto E, Bingman CA, Bittova L, Frederick RO, Fox BG, Phillips GN Jr.:”X-ray structure of Danio rerio secretagogin: A hexa-EF-hand calcium sensor.”, Proteins. 2009; 76(2):477-83.
- Bitto E, Bingman CA, Bittova L, Houston NL, Boston RS, Fox BG, Phillips GN Jr.: “X-ray structure of ILL2, an auxin-conjugate amidohydrolase from Arabidopsis thaliana.” Proteins. 2009; 74(1):61-71.
- Zhang C, Bitto E, Goff RD, Singh S, Bingman CA, Griffith BR, Albermann C, Phillips GN Jr, Thorson JS. “Biochemical and structural insights of the early glycosylation steps in calicheamicin biosynthesis.” Chem Biol. 2008; 15(8):842-53.
- Bitto E, Bingman CA, Bittova L, Kondrashov DA, Bannen RM, Fox BG, Markley JL, Phillips GN Jr.“Structure of human J-type co-chaperone HscB reveals a tetracysteine metal-binding domain.” J Biol Chem. 2008; 283(44):30184-92.
- Aceti DJ, Bitto E, Yakunin AF, Proudfoot M, Bingman CA, Frederick RO, Sreenath HK, Vojtik FC, L Wrobel R, Fox BG, Markley JL, Phillips GN Jr.: “Structural and functional characterization of a novel phosphatase from the Arabidopsis thaliana gene locus At1g05000.” Proteins. 2008 73(1):241-53.
- Dimaio F, Kondrashov DA, Bitto E, Soni A, Bingman CA, Phillips GN Jr, Shavlik JW: “Creating Protein Models from Electron-Density Maps using Particle-Filtering Methods.” Bioinformatics. 2007 23(21):2851-8
- Aranda R 4th, Worley CE, Liu M, Bitto E, Cates MS, Olson JS, Lei B, Phillips GN Jr.:”Bis-methionyl Coordination in the Crystal Structure of the Heme-binding Domain of the Streptococcal Cell Surface Protein Shp.” J Mol Biol. 2007 374:374–383
- Bae E, Bingman CA, Bitto E, Aceti DJ, Phillips GN Jr.: “Crystal structure of Arabidopsis thaliana cytokinin dehydrogenase.” Proteins. 2007 Sep 20;70(1):303-306
- Bitto E, Huang Y, Bingman CA, Singh S, Thorson JS, Phillips GN Jr.: “The structure of flavin-dependent tryptophan 7-halogenase RebH.” Proteins. 2007 Sep 17;70(1):289-293
- Phillips GN Jr, Fox BG, Markley JL, Volkman BF, Bae E, Bitto E, Bingman CA, Frederick RO, McCoy JG, Lytle BL, Pierce BS, Song J, Twigger SN: “Structures of proteins of biomedical interest from the Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics.” J Struct Funct Genomics. 2007 8(2-3):73-84
- Bitto E, Bingman CA, Kondrashov DA, McCoy JG, Bannen RM, Wesenberg GE, Phillips GN Jr.: “Structure and dynamics of gamma-SNAP: Insight into flexibility of proteins from the SNAP family.” 2007 Jul 16;70(1):93-104
- Bitto E, Bingman CA, Wesenberg GE, McCoy JG, Phillips GN Jr.: “Structure of aspartoacylase, the brain enzyme impaired in Canavan disease.” Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2007 Jan 9;104(2):456-61.
- McCoy JG, Bitto E, Bingman CA, Wesenberg GE, Bannen RM, Kondrashov DA, Phillips GN Jr.: “Structure and dynamics of UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from Arabidopsis thaliana with bound UDP-glucose and UTP.” J Mol Biol. 2007 Feb 23;366(3):830-41.
- Tyler RC, Bitto E, Berndsen CE, Bingman CA, Singh S, Lee MS, Wesenberg GE, Denu JM, Phillips GN Jr, Markley JL.: “Structure of Arabidopsis thaliana At1g77540 protein, a minimal acetyltransferase from the COG2388 family.” Biochemistry. 2006 Dec 5;45(48):14325-36.
- Jeon WB, Allard ST, Bingman CA, Bitto E, Han BW, Wesenberg GE, Phillips GN Jr.: “X-ray crystal structures of the conserved hypothetical proteins from Arabidopsis thaliana gene loci At5g11950 and AT2g37210.” Proteins. 2006 Dec 1;65(4):1051-4.
- McCoy JG, Bingman CA, Bitto E, Holdorf MM, Makaroff CA, Phillips GN Jr.: “Structure of an ETHE1-like protein from Arabidopsis thaliana.” Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2006 Sep;62(Pt 9):964-70.
- Bitto E, Bingman CA, Wesenberg GE, McCoy JG, Phillips GN Jr.: “Structure of pyrimidine 5′-nucleotidase type 1. Insight into mechanism of action and inhibition during lead poisoning.” J Biol Chem. 2006 Jul 21;281(29):20521-9.
- McCoy JG, Arabshahi A, Bitto E, Bingman CA, Ruzicka FJ, Frey PA, Phillips GN Jr.: “Structure and mechanism of an ADP-glucose phosphorylase from Arabidopsis thaliana.” Biochemistry. 2006 Mar 14;45(10):3154-62.
- Bitto E, Bingman CA, Robinson H, Allard ST, Wesenberg GE, Phillips GN Jr.: “The structure at 2.5 A resolution of human basophilic leukemia-expressed protein BLES03.” Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2005 Sep 1;61(Pt 9):812-7.
- Allard ST, Bingman CA, Johnson KA, Wesenberg GE, Bitto E, Jeon WB, Phillips GN Jr.: “Structure at 1.6 A resolution of the protein from gene locus At3g22680 from Arabidopsis thaliana.” Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2005 Jul 1;61(Pt 7):647-50.
- Bitto E, Bingman CA, Allard ST, Wesenberg GE, Phillips GN Jr.: “The structure at 1.7 A resolution of the protein product of the At2g17340 gene from Arabidopsis thaliana.” Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2005 Jul 1;61(Pt 7):630-5.
- Bitto E, Bingman CA, Allard ST, Wesenberg GE, Aceti DJ, Wrobel RL, Frederick RO, Sreenath H, Vojtik FC, Jeon WB, Newman CS, Primm J, Sussman MR, Fox BG, Markley JL, Phillips GN Jr.: “The structure at 2.4 A resolution of the protein from gene locus At3g21360, a putative Fe(II)/2-oxoglutarate-dependent enzyme from Arabidopsis thaliana.” Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2005 May 1;61(Pt 5):469-72.
- McCoy JG, Bailey LJ, Bitto E, Bingman CA, Aceti DJ, Fox BG, Phillips GN Jr.: “Structure and mechanism of mouse cysteine dioxygenase.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Feb 28;103(9):3084-9.
- Bitto E, Bingman CA, McCoy JG, Allard ST, Wesenberg GE, Phillips GN Jr.: “The structure at 1.6 Angstroms resolution of the protein product of the At4g34215 gene from Arabidopsis thaliana.” Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2005 Dec;61(Pt 12):1655-61.
- Bitto E, McKay DB.: “Binding of phage-display-selected peptides to the periplasmic chaperone protein SurA mimics binding of unfolded outer membrane proteins.” FEBS Lett. 2004 Jun 18;568(1-3):94-8.
- Bitto E, McKay DB.: “The periplasmic molecular chaperone protein SurA binds a peptide motif that is characteristic of integral outer membrane proteins.” J Biol Chem. 2003 Dec 5;278(49):49316-22.
- Bitto E, McKay DB.: “Crystallographic structure of SurA, a molecular chaperone that facilitates folding of outer membrane porins.” Structure. 2002 Nov;10(11):1489-98.
- Bitto E, Li M, Tikhonov AM, Schlossman ML, Cho W.: “Mechanism of annexin I-mediated membrane aggregation.” Biochemistry. 2000 Nov 7;39(44):13469-77.
- Bitto E, Cho W.: “Structural determinant of the vesicle aggregation activity of annexin I.” Biochemistry. 1999 Oct 19;38(42):14094-100.
- Bitto E, Cho W.: “Roles of individual domains of annexin I in its vesicle binding and vesicle aggregation: a comprehensive mutagenesis study.” Biochemistry. 1998 Jul 14;37(28):10231-7
- Pancoska P, Bitto E, Janota V, Urbanova M, Gupta VP, Keiderling TA.: “Comparison of and limits of accuracy for statistical analyses of vibrational and electronic circular dichroism spectra in terms of correlations to and predictions of protein secondary structure.” Protein Sci. 1995 Jul;4(7):1384-401.
- Pancoska P, Bitto E, Janota V, Keiderling TA.: “Quantitative analysis of vibrational circular dichroism spectra of proteins. Problems and perspectives.” Faraday Discuss. 1994;(99):287-310.
Additional Information
CURRENT ACADEMIC INTERESTS
- Structure–function studies of substrate selectivity gatekeeper residues of cytosolic pyrimidine 5’-nucleotidase III.
- Use of molecular graphics and visualization to support teaching of biochemistry
- CH311/BI437 – Biochemistry I
- CH312/BI438 – Biochemistry II
- CH151 – Chemistry for Health Sciences
- CH416 – Topics in Chemistry and Biochemistry – Medicinal Chemistry
- CH113 – General Chemistry I
- CH111/Ch112 – Chemistry in Your Life
