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Saba Tufail

University of Alabama

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CASK hypomorph mice display cone photoreceptor dysfunction

Sheida Hashemi, Sara Y. Sabbagh, Khushi Talajia, James A. Fortenberry, Saba Tufail, Candice Turner, Konark Mukherjee

This study shows that Cask knock-in mice exhibit cone photoreceptor dysfunction, reduced visual acuity, and lowered cone-specific opsin levels, linking CASK LOF to retinopathy.

bioRxiv · Jan 16, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Chromatin regulator HELLS mediates SSB repair and responses to DNA alkylation damage.

Joyous T. Joseph, Christine M. Wright, Estanislao Peixoto, Etsuko Shibata, Asad Ullah Khan, Yong Li, Jason Romero Neidigk, Bo-Ruei Chen, Saba Tufail, Aaiyas Mujawar, Olivia Decker, Krishna Reethika Kadali, Azait Imtiaz, Brianna A Jones, Yanfeng Zhang, , Wioletta Czaja

This study identifies HELLS as a regulator of SSB repair and DNA alkylation damage response, showing its synthetic lethality with HRD in cancer.

Nucleic Acids Research · Oct 21, 2025Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology