Featured articles
From 2006-2011, the Consortium for Functional Glycomics (CFG) and the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) collaborated to provide the Functional Glycomics Update, a one-stop resource with monthly updates on the latest developments in glycobiology. Here, access the complete archive of Featured Articles, specially written editors' reviews on the most exciting findings in glycobiology. Original pieces created by NPG as part of the NPG-CFG partnership are subject to copyright by the Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited; used with permission.
December 2006
N-glycosylation: Bacteria target flexible loops of folded proteins
In contrast to the glycosylation of unfolded proteins in eukaryotes, N-glycosylation in bacteria occurs at locally flexible structures in folded proteins.
Original research paper: Science 314, 1148-1150 (2006)
doi:10.1126/science.113435117 November 2006O-glycosylation enzymes: Directing traffic during Drosophila embryogenesis
A Drosophila melanogaster mutant reveals that mucin-type O-glycosylation plays a role in the establishment of basoapical cell polarity of tracheal cells during embryogenesis.
Original research paper: J. Biol. Chem. 282, 606-614 (2007)
doi:10.1074/jbc.M606268200
