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    epithelium-specific 65 kDa protein (also known as RPE65) is a retinoid isomerohydrolase enzyme of the vertebrate visual cycle. RPE65 is expressed in the retinal pigment...
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    variants, including the Retinal pigment epithelium-specific 65 kDa (RPE65) gene. The RPE65 protein is essential in the process of vision, as it contributes...
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  • Leber congenital amaurosis. Leber's congenital amaurosis, or biallelic RPE65-mediated inherited retinal disease, is an inherited disorder causing progressive...
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  • TULP1 in maintaining the cilia on photoreceptor cells; LRAT, RDH12, and RPE65 in replenishing retinal levels for the visual cycle; IMPDH1 in guanine synthesis...
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    as follows: all-trans-retinyl ester + H2O → 11-cis-retinol + fatty acid; RPE65 isomerohydrolases; 11-cis-retinol + NAD+ → 11-cis-retinal + NADH + H+; 11-cis-retinol...
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  • as follows: all-trans-retinyl ester + H2O → 11-cis-retinol + fatty acid; RPE65 isomerohydrolases; 11-cis-retinol + NAD+ → 11-cis-retinal + NADH + H+; 11-cis-retinol...
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    patients with Leber congenital amaurosis type 2. It replaces the miscoded RPE65 protein that is produced within the retinal pigmented epithelium. It has...
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  • and cones. RPE65 knockout mice (Rpe65(-/-)) showed much weaker phase shifts when compared to rodless, coneless mice, which suggested that RPE65 might have...
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    used a common cold virus to deliver a normal version of the gene called RPE65 directly into the eyes of affected patients. All three patients, aged 19...
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  • then converted to 11-cis-retinol by the isomerohydrolase RPE65. The isomerase activity of RPE65 has been shown; it is uncertain whether it also acts as...
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