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  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Theodore G. Wensel is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and ophthalmology.

Their scholarly work centers on topics such as retinal development and disorders, genetic and kidney cyst diseases, cellular transport and secretion, receptor mechanisms and signaling, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, protist diversity and phylogeny, and microtubule and mitosis dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for Wensel include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Nature Communications
  • JCI Insight
  • Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Coauthors who have collaborated with Wensel regularly include:

  • Melina A. Agosto
  • Abigail R. Moye
  • Michael A. Robichaux
  • Feng He
  • Zhixian Zhang

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Theodore G. Wensel include:

  • Structure and dynamics of photoreceptor sensory cilia, 2021, Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology
  • Phosphoinositides in Retinal Function and Disease, 2020, Cells
  • MTOR-initiated metabolic switch and degeneration in the retinal pigment epithelium, 2020, The FASEB Journal
  • Super-resolution microscopy reveals photoreceptor-specific subciliary location and function of ciliopathy-associated protein CEP290, 2021, JCI Insight
  • LRRTM4 is a member of the transsynaptic complex between rod photoreceptors and bipolar cells, 2020, The Journal of Comparative Neurology

Theodore G. Wensel was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • RGS9, a GTPase Accelerator for Phototransduction

    Wei He;Christopher W Cowan;Theodore G Wensel

  • Segmental flexibility and complement fixation of genetically engineered chimeric human, rabbit and mouse antibodies.

    J. L. Dangl;T. G. Wensel;S. L. Morrison;L. Stryer

  • Neural reprogramming in retinal degeneration.

    Robert E. Marc;Bryan W. Jones;James R. Anderson;Krista Kinard

  • Structural determinants for regulation of phosphodiesterase by a G protein at 2.0 Å

    Kevin C. Slep;Michele A. Kercher;Wei He;Christopher W. Cowan;Christopher W. Cowan

  • RGS expression rate-limits recovery of rod photoresponses.

    Claudia M. Krispel;Desheng Chen;Nathan Melling;Yu Jiun Chen

  • Metal chelates as probes of biological systems

    Claude F. Meares;Theodore G. Wensel

  • Structure of TRPV1 channel revealed by electron cryomicroscopy

    Vera Y. Moiseenkova-Bell;Lia A. Stanciu;Irina I. Serysheva;Ben J. Tobe

  • Instability of GGL domain-containing RGS proteins in mice lacking the G protein β-subunit Gβ5

    Ching-Kang Chen;Pamela Eversole-Cire;Haikun Zhang;Valeria Mancino

  • Kinetics of calcium channel opening by inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate

    Tobias Meyer;Theodore Wensel;Lubert Stryer

  • Evolutionary Trace of G Protein-coupled Receptors Reveals Clusters of Residues That Determine Global and Class-specific Functions *

    Srinivasan Madabushi;Alecia K. Gross;Anne Philippi;Elaine C. Meng

  • High expression levels in cones of RGS9, the predominant GTPase accelerating protein of rods

    Christopher W. Cowan;Robert N. Fariss;Izabela Sokal;Krzysztof Palczewski

  • R9AP, a membrane anchor for the photoreceptor GTPase accelerating protein, RGS9-1.

    Guang Hu;Theodore G. Wensel

  • Cloning and Characterization of RGS9-2: A Striatal-Enriched Alternatively Spliced Product of the RGS9 Gene

    Z. Rahman;S. J. Gold;M. N. Potenza;C. W. Cowan

  • Reciprocal control of retinal rod cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase by its γ subunit and transducin

    Theodore G. Wensel;Lubert Stryer

  • Oral Curcumin Mitigates the Clinical and Neuropathologic Phenotype of the Trembler-J Mouse: A Potential Therapy for Inherited Neuropathy

    Mehrdad Khajavi;Kensuke Shiga;Wojciech Wiszniewski;Feng He

  • Three-Dimensional Architecture of the Rod Sensory Cilium and its Disruption in Retinal Neurodegeneration

    Jared C. Gilliam;Juan T. Chang;Ivette M. Sandoval;Youwen Zhang

  • A comparison of the efficiency of G protein activation by ligand-free and light-activated forms of rhodopsin.

    T.J. Melia;C.W. Cowan;J.K. Angleson;T.G. Wensel

  • Prediction and confirmation of a site critical for effector regulation of RGS domain activity.

    Mathew E. Sowa;Wei He;Kevin C. Slep;Michele A. Kercher;Michele A. Kercher

  • A Synaptic Vesicle-Associated Ca2+ Channel Promotes Endocytosis and Couples Exocytosis to Endocytosis

    Chi Kuang Yao;Yong Qi Lin;Cindy V. Ly;Tomoko Ohyama

  • A GTPase-accelerating factor for transducin, distinct from its effector cGMP phosphodiesterase, in rod outer segment membranes

    Joseph K. Angleson;Theodore G. Wensel

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Wilson
John H. Wilson Baylor College of Medicine
Olivier Lichtarge
Olivier Lichtarge Baylor College of Medicine
Claude F. Meares
Claude F. Meares University of California, Davis
Lubert Stryer
Lubert Stryer Stanford University
Wah Chiu
Wah Chiu Stanford University
Samuel M. Wu
Samuel M. Wu Baylor College of Medicine
Wolfgang Baehr
Wolfgang Baehr University of Utah
Rui Chen
Rui Chen Capital Medical University
Milan Jamrich
Milan Jamrich Baylor College of Medicine
James R. Lupski
James R. Lupski Baylor College of Medicine

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