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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Absence of retbindin blocks glycolytic flux, disrupts metabolic homeostasis, and leads to photoreceptor degeneration.

Tirthankar Sinha, Jianhai Du, Mustafa S Makia, James B Hurley, Muna I Naash, Muayyad R Al-Ubaidi

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Retbindin Dynamically Redistributes to Preserve Retinal Flavin-Dependent Homeostasis in Response to Riboflavin Availability and Circadian Demand.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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  2. Riboflavin, Retbindin, and Riboflavin Transporters in the Retina.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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  6. Nuclear NADeLife · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Tirthankar SinhaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204.ORCID 0000-0002-7138-0907
Jianhai DuDepartment of Ophthalmology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506.ORCID 0000-0002-2019-8128
Mustafa S MakiaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204.
James B HurleyDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.ORCID 0000-0002-7754-0705
Muna I NaashDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204; mnaash@central.uh.edu malubaid@central.uh.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6534-5144
Muayyad R Al-UbaidiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204; mnaash@central.uh.edu malubaid@central.uh.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4914-350X
University of Houston · USUniversity of Washington · USWest Virginia University · US

Funding

Human RPE metabolism and metabolite transportR01EY026030 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI CHAO, JENNIFER RAYMING, DU, JIANHAI · 2016 to 2020
$2.1M
Role of retbindin in retinal homeostasis and diseasesR01EY026499 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI AL-UBAIDI, MUAYYAD R, NAASH, MUNA I. · 2017 to 2019
$1.1M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY026030NEI NIH HHS R01 EY026499
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We previously reported a model of progressive retinal degeneration resulting from the knockout of the retina-specific riboflavin binding protein, retbindin (

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AnimalsCitric Acid CycleDisease Models, AnimalEye ProteinsFlavinsGlycolysisHomeostasisHumansMicePyruvate KinaseRetinaRetinal DegenerationEye ProteinsFlavinsPkm protein, mousePyruvate KinaseRTBDN protein, mouseflavinsmetabolismmetabolomicsretbindinretinal degeneration

Identifiers

PMID33526685
PMCPMC8017963
OpenAlexW3128076071

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