Publications by authors named "Smriti Agrawal Zaneveld"

Receptor accessory protein 6 (REEP6) is a member of the REEP/Ypt-interacting protein family that we recently identified as essential for normal endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis and protein trafficking in the retina of mice and humans. Interestingly, in addition to the loss of REEP6 in our knockout (KO) mouse model recapitulating the retinal degeneration of humans with REEP6 mutations causing retinitis pigmentosa (RP), we also found that male mice are sterile. Herein, we characterize the infertility caused by loss of Reep6.

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Hereditary retinal dystrophy is clinically defined as a broad group of chronic and progressive disorders that affect visual function by causing photoreceptor degeneration. Previously, we identified mutations in the gene encoding receptor expression-enhancing protein 6 (REEP6), in individuals with autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa (RP), the most common form of inherited retinal dystrophy. One individual was molecularly diagnosed with biallelic REEP6 mutations, a missense mutation over a frameshift mutation.

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NMNAT1 (nicotinamide mononucleotide adenylyltransferase 1) encodes a rate-limiting enzyme that catalyzes the biosynthesis of NAD and plays a role in neuroprotection. Mutations in NMNAT1 have been identified to cause a recessive, non-syndromic early form of blindness genetically defined as Leber Congenital Amaurosis 9 (LCA9). One of the most common alleles reported so far in NMNAT1 is the c.

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