1. Taylor, A., and Jahngen, J.H. Maturation and aging are associated with decrements in ubiquitin-protein conjugation capability: Plausible involvement of impaired proteolytic capabilities in cataract formation. In The Effects of Aging and Environment on Vision. (Armstrong, D.A., Marmor, M.F., and Ordy, M., eds.) Plenum Press, New York. (1991) pp. 85-99.

2. Jahngen-Hodge, J., Cyr, D., Laxman, E., and Taylor, A. Age-related accumulation of ubiquitin conjugates in human eye lens membrane-containing fractions. Eye Lens Membranes and Aging. Topics in Ageing Research in Europe Eurage, Leiden, The Netherlands, (1991) 15:319-338.

3. Taylor, A. Aminopeptidases: toward a mechanism of action. TIBS (1993) 18:167-172.

4. Jahngen-Hodge, J., Taylor, A., Shang, Huang, L.L., and Mura, C. Oxidative stress to lens crystallins. In: Methods in Enzymology (Packer, L., ed.) Academic Press, CA (1994) Chapter 54, vol. 233, part C, pp. 512-522.

5.Taylor, A. Aminopeptidases, occurrence, regulation and nomenclature. In: The Aminopeptidases (Taylor, A., ed.) Landes Bioscience Publishers, Austin, TX (1996), pp. 1-20.

6. Taylor, A., Sanford, D., and Nowell, T. Structure and function of bovine lens aminopeptidase and comparison with homologous aminopeptidase and comparison with homologous aminopeptidases. In: The Aminopeptidases (Taylor, A., ed.) Landes Bioscience Publishers, Austin, TX (1996), pp. 21-68.

7. Taylor, A., Berger, J. Reddan, J., and Zuliani, A. Effects of aging in vitro on intracellular proteolysis in cultured rabbit lens epithelial cells in the presence and absence of serum. In Vitro Cell. Develop. Biol. (1991) 27A:287-292.

8. Taylor, A. Nutritional and environmental influences on risk for cataract. In: Nutritional and Environmental Influences on the Eye (Taylor, A., ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (1999), pp. 53-93.

9. Taylor, A. Nutritional Influences on Risk for Cataract In: Environmental Stressors in Health and Disease (Packer, L., and Fuchs, J., eds.), Marcel Dekker Inc., N.Y. (2001) pp. 457-488.

10. Taylor, A. and Warner, J. Physiological function, structure, and mechanism of action of aminopeptidases and aminopeptidase inhibitors. In: Proteinase and Peptidase Inhibition: Recent Potential Targets for Drug Development (Smith, H.J. and Simons, C.), Taylor and Francis, N.Y. (2002) pp. 305-333.

11. Taylor, A. and Siegal, M. 2002 Assessment of Nutritional Influences on risk for Cataract. Molecular Nutrition (Zempleni, J. and Daniel, H., eds) CABI (2003) in press.

12. Taylor, A., Jacques, P., Nadler, D., Morrow, F., Sulsky, S.I., and Shepard, D. Relationship between ascorbic acid consumption and levels of total and reduced ascorbic acid in lens, aqueous humor, and plasma. Curr. Eye Res. (1991) 10:751-759.

13. Chiu CJ, Taylor, A. (2007) Review: Nutritional Antioxidants and Age-Related Cataract and Maculopathy. Exp. Eye Res. 84, 229-245.

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1. Tsaioun, K.T., Denisova, N.A., Obin, M.S. and Joseph, J. (2000) Novel Growth Factor Gas6, Phosphatidylserine and their Age-Related Changes in the Rat Brain. Neurosci. Res. Commun. 26, 113-122.

2. Souza, J.M., Choi, I., Chen, Q., Weisse, M., Daikhin, E., Yudkoff, M., Obin, M., Ara, J., Horwitz, J. and Ischiropoulus, H. (2000) Proteolytic Degradation of Tyrosine Nitrated Proteins. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 15, 360-366.

3. Hall, M.O., Prieto, A.L., Obin, M.S., Abrams, T.A., Burgess, B.L. Heeb, M.J. and Agnew, B.J. (2001) Outer Segment Phagocytosis by Cultured Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells Requires Gas6. Exp. Eye Res. 73, 509-520.

4. Hall, M.O., Obin, M.S., Prieto, A.L., Burgess, B.L. and Abrams, T.A. (2002) Gas6 Binding to Photoreceptor Outer Segments Requires Y-Carboxyglutamic Acid (Gla) and Ca2+ and is Required for OS Phagocytosis by RPE Cells in Vitro. Exp. Eye Res. 75, 391-400.

5. Brill, E., Patnala, S., Lem, J., and Obin, M. (2003). Bright Light Induces Retinal Degeneration by a Transducin- Independent Mechanism. Retinal Degenerations (Holyfield, Anders and LaVail, eds.) CRC Press, 1-6.

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