Research News

After years spent researching a protein linked to inherited forms of glaucoma, Raquel Lieberman, PhD, and her team at Georgia Tech have provided a three-dimensional view of that protein and a better understanding of what can happen when it becomes misshapen through genetic miscoding.

With the help of BrightFocus funding, Beatrice Yue, PhD, and colleagues have demonstrated that mutant forms of optineurin are associated with normal tension glaucoma (NTG) through a breakdown of the cell recycling machinery for protein (autophagy).