{"597648":{"#nid":"597648","#data":{"type":"news","title":"\u0027Y\u0027 a Protein Might Matter in Glaucoma","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe lab of Petit Institute researcher Raquel Lieberman has made an important new discovery in a protein associated with glaucoma: a Y-shape.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis extreme oddity is significant to science, and possibly someday to medicine, particularly in the treatment of certain types of blindness.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;A protein like this one has never been reported before. There are extremely few Y-shapes in proteins at all,\u0026rdquo; said Lieberman, who led a two-year study, running the protein through a gauntlet of lab tests. The research has been published in the journal, \u003Cem\u003EStructure\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELieberman, a structural biologist and associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is an expert on myocilin, a protein sometimes implicated in a form of hereditary glaucoma, which is just one category of glaucoma \u0026ndash; the second most common cause of blindness globally. Genetic mutations in myocilin are a major cause of hereditary glaucoma, which can strike at a particularly young age, including in childhood.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2017\/10\/19\/y-protein-unicorn-might-matter-glaucoma\u0022\u003ERead the entire story of this groundbreaking research here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Petit Institute lab of Raquel Lieberman makes groundbreaking discovery"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPetit Institute lab of Raquel Lieberman makes groundbreaking discovery\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Petit Institute lab of Raquel Lieberman makes groundbreaking discovery"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2017-10-20 14:41:16","changed_gmt":"2017-10-20 14:41:16","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-10-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-10-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"597647":{"id":"597647","type":"image","title":"Raquel Lieberman","body":null,"created":"1508510380","gmt_created":"2017-10-20 14:39:40","changed":"1508510380","gmt_changed":"2017-10-20 14:39:40","alt":"","file":{"fid":"227823","name":"Raquel Lieberman.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Raquel%20Lieberman.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Raquel%20Lieberman.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":50157,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Raquel%20Lieberman.jpg?itok=NgpEJgRM"}}},"media_ids":["597647"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}