Publications

Chiu, C-J, and Taylor A. (2007) Nutritional antioxidants and age-related cataract and maculopathy. Exp. Eye Res. 84, 229-45.

Chiu, C-J., Milton, R.C., Klein, R., Gensler, G., and Taylor, A., Dietary glycemic index is related to progression of age-related macular degeneration: A prospective study from the Age-Related Eye Diseases Study. Am. J. Clin. Nut. (2007) 86, 1210-8.

Zhang X, Dudek, EJ, Liu B, Ding L, Fernandes AF, Liang JJ, Horwitz J, Taylor A, Shang F. Degradation of C-terminal Truncated ?A-crystallins by the Ubiquitin Proteasome Pathway. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. (2007) 48, 4200-8.

Chiu, CJ, Milton, R.C., Ferris III, F.L., Gensler, G, and Taylor A. Dietary carbohydrate and glycemic index in relation to Age-Related Macular Degeneration ? The Age-Related Eye Disease Study. Am. J. Clin. Nut. (2007) 86,180-188

Zetterberg, M., Zhang, X., Taylor, A., Liu, B., Liang J.J., Shang, F. Glutathiolation enhances the degradation of yC-crystallin in lens and reticulocyte lysates, partially via the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. (2006);47, 3467-73

Chiu, CJ, Milton, R.C., Ferris III, F.L., Gensler, G, and Taylor A. Dietary carbohydrate and glycemic index in relation to cortical and nuclear lens opacities ? The Age-Related Eye Disease Study. Am. J. Clin. Nut. 2006. 83: 1177-1184.

Liu Q, Shang F , Zhang X, Li W, Taylor A. Expression of K6W-ubiquitin inhibits proliferation of human lens epithelial cells. Mol. Vis. 2006. 12: 931-6.

Guo, W., Shang, F., Taylor, A. Proteasome pathway is required for lens cell proliferation and differentiation. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2006. 47: 2569-2575.

Chiu, C-J., Morris, M. S., Jacques, P. F. , Rogers, G., Chylack, L.T. Jr., Hankinson, S. E., Willett, W. C., Taylor, A. Long-term dietary carbohydrate intake, glycemic index and odds for early age-related macular degeneration. Am. J. Clin. Nut. 2006. 83: 880-886.

Shang, F., Deng, G., Nowell, T. R., Haas, A.L., and Taylor, A. K6-Modified Ubiquitin interferes with 26S proteasome binding and inhibits deconjugation and ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis. J. Biol. Chem. 2005. 280: 20365-74.

Dudek, E., Shang, F., Q. Liu, Q., Hobbs, M., Taylor A. Selectivity of the ubiquitin pathway for oxidatively modified proteins: relevance to protein precipitation diseases. FASEB J. 2005. 19: 1707-9.

Lu, M.,Taylor, A., Chylack, LT, Hankinson, SE, Willett, WC, Jacques, PF. Dietary fat intake and early age-related lens opacities. Am. J. Clin. Nut. 2005. 81: 773-9.

Jacques, P., Taylor, A., Moeller, S., Hankinson, S.E., Rogers, G., Tung, W., Ludvico, J., Willett, W.C., Chylack, L.T. Long-term nutrient intake and five-year change in nuclear opacities. Arch. Ophthalmol.2005.123: 517-26.

Guo, W., Shang, F., Urim, L., West-Mays, J., Zelenka, P., Taylor, A. Differential regulation of components of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway during lens cell differentiation. Invest Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. (2004) 4,1194 1201.

Shang, F, Taylor, A. Function of the ubiquitin proteolytic pathway in the eye. Exp. Eye Res. 2004. 78: 1-14.

Nutrition and Vision Research Laboratory

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