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.
March 2007
Brain development: Changing cortex, changing glycans
A refined approach to glycosylation profiling uncovers glycan changes in the developing mouse cortex.
Original research paper: Glycobiology 17, , 261-276 (2007)
doi:10.1093/glycob/cwl076Fucosylation: Keep those lymphocytes rolling
Mice lacking the GDP-fucose transporter Slc35c1 show severely reduced body growth and impaired leukocyte function similar to the symptoms observed in the human disease Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency II (LADII).
Original research paper: J Biol Chem. AOP 2 February, (2007)
