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.
May 2007
T cells: Home sweet home
The L-selectin ligand 6-sulfo sialyl Lewis X, known to be a capping structure of O-glycans, is also present on the N-glycans of endothelial cell surface proteins to guide the homing of lymphocytes.
Original research paper: Nature Immunology 8,, 409-418 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ni1442Glycomics: Gathering glycans from glycolipids
The integration of analyses of glycans linked to lipids with those linked to proteins is an innovative step towards high-throughput glycomics.
Original research paper: Glycobiology, ( 6 March 2007)
doi:10.1093/glycob/cwm024
