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Overview

Gabriel H. Travis is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research contributions focus primarily on vision science, molecular biology, and neuroscience, with a specialization in retinal biology and photoreceptor function.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

More specifically, their subfields of study emphasize:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Ophthalmology
  • Materials Chemistry

Their research topics address various aspects of retina-related biology and vision processes, including:

  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Retinal Diseases and Treatments
  • Retinoids in leukemia and cellular processes
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry

Gabriel H. Travis's recent publications illustrate active involvement in understanding photoreceptor mechanisms and visual cycles:

  • "RDH12 allows cone photoreceptors to regenerate opsin visual pigments from a chromophore precursor to escape competition with rods" (2024), published in Current Biology
  • "Dawn and dusk peaks of outer segment phagocytosis, and visual cycle function require Rab28" (2022), published in The FASEB Journal
  • "Rod Photoreceptors Avoid Saturation in Bright Light by the Movement of the G Protein Transducin" (2021), published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Non-photopic and photopic visual cycles differentially regulate immediate, early, and late phases of cone photoreceptor-mediated vision" (2020), published in Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • "Non-photopic and photopic visual cycles differentially regulate immediate, early and late-phases of cone photoreceptor-mediated vision" (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gabriel H. Travis include:

  • Joanna J. Kaylor
  • Breandán N. Kennedy
  • Rebecca Ward
  • Rikard Frederiksen
  • Gordon Fain

Their published works frequently appear in established venues such as:

  • The FASEB Journal
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Current Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The focus of Gabriel H. Travis's research on photoreceptor biology and retinal function integrates molecular mechanisms underlying vision, with specific attention to cone and rod photoreceptors and their adaptation to light conditions. Their scientific output contributes to understanding retinal diseases and therapies through detailed biochemical and cellular approaches.

Best Publications

  • Insights into the Function of Rim Protein in Photoreceptors and Etiology of Stargardt's Disease from the Phenotype in abcr Knockout Mice

    Jian Weng;Nathan L. Mata;Sassan M. Azarian;Radouil T. Tzekov

  • Biosynthesis of a major lipofuscin fluorophore in mice and humans with ABCR-mediated retinal and macular degeneration

    Nathan L. Mata;Jian Weng;Gabriel H. Travis

  • Rpe65 is the retinoid isomerase in bovine retinal pigment epithelium.

    Minghao Jin;Songhua Li;Walid N. Moghrabi;Hui Sun;Hui Sun

  • Identification of a photoreceptor-specific mRNA encoded by the gene responsible for retinal degeneration slow (rds).

    Gabriel H. Travis;Miles B. Brennan;Patria E. Danielson;Christine A. Kozak

  • Isomerization and Oxidation of Vitamin A in Cone-Dominant Retinas: A Novel Pathway for Visual-Pigment Regeneration in Daylight

    Nathan L. Mata;Roxana A. Radu;Richard S. Clemmons;Gabriel H. Travis;Gabriel H. Travis

  • Mutations in the human retinal degeneration slow gene in autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa.

    Kazuto Kajiwara;Lauri B. Hahn;Shizuo Mukai;Gabriel H. Travis

  • Diseases caused by defects in the visual cycle: retinoids as potential therapeutic agents.

    Gabriel H. Travis;Marcin Golczak;Alexander R. Moise;Krzysztof Palczewski

  • The retinal degeneration slow (rds) gene product is a photoreceptor disc membrane-associated glycoprotein.

    Gabriel H. Travis;J.Gregor Sutcliffe;Dean Bok

  • Reductions in serum vitamin A arrest accumulation of toxic retinal fluorophores: a potential therapy for treatment of lipofuscin-based retinal diseases.

    Roxana A. Radu;Yun Han;Tam V. Bui;Steven Nusinowitz

  • Treatment with isotretinoin inhibits lipofuscin accumulation in a mouse model of recessive Stargardt's macular degeneration

    Roxana A. Radu;Nathan L. Mata;Steven Nusinowitz;Xinran Liu

  • Delayed dark-adaptation and lipofuscin accumulation in abcr+/- mice: implications for involvement of ABCR in age-related macular degeneration.

    Nathan L. Mata;Radouil T. Tzekov;Xinran Liu;Jian Weng

  • Cyclophilin-related protein RanBP2 acts as chaperone for red/green opsin

    Paulo A. Ferreira;Tomoko A. Nakayama;William L. Pak;Gabriel H. Travis

  • Light exposure stimulates formation of A2E oxiranes in a mouse model of Stargardt's macular degeneration

    Roxana A. Radu;Nathan L. Mata;Aarti Bagla;Gabriel H. Travis

  • The photoreceptor rim protein is an ABC transporter encoded by the gene for recessive Stargardt's disease (ABCR).

    Sassan M. Azarian;Gabriel H. Travis

  • Molecular signature of primary retinal pigment epithelium and stem-cell-derived RPE cells

    Jo-Ling Liao;Juehua Yu;Kevin Huang;Jane Hu

  • Accelerated accumulation of lipofuscin pigments in the RPE of a mouse model for ABCA4-mediated retinal dystrophies following Vitamin A supplementation.

    Roxana A. Radu;Quan Yuan;Jane Hu;Jennifer H. Peng

  • Mechanisms of Cell Death in the Inherited Retinal Degenerations

    Gabriel H. Travis

  • The human retinal degeneration slow (RDS) gene: chromosome assignment and structure of the mRNA.

    G H Travis;L Christerson;P E Danielson;I Klisak

  • Complement System Dysregulation and Inflammation in the Retinal Pigment Epithelium of a Mouse Model for Stargardt Macular Degeneration

    Roxana A. Radu;Jane Hu;Quan Yuan;Darcy L. Welch

  • Complete rescue of photoreceptor dysplasia and degeneration in transgenic retinal degeneration slow (rds) mice

    Gabriel H. Travis;Karen R. Groshan;Marcia Lloyd;Dean Bok

Frequent Co-Authors

Dean Bok
Dean Bok University of California, Los Angeles
Edwin M. Stone
Edwin M. Stone University of Iowa
David G. Birch
David G. Birch The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Gordon L. Fain
Gordon L. Fain University of California, Los Angeles
James B. Hurley
James B. Hurley University of Washington
Robert F. Mullins
Robert F. Mullins University of Iowa
Paul A. Sieving
Paul A. Sieving University of California, Davis
Paulo A. Ferreira
Paulo A. Ferreira Duke University
Thaddeus P. Dryja
Thaddeus P. Dryja Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Samuel G. Jacobson
Samuel G. Jacobson University of Pennsylvania

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