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 2007
Cancer cell development: MUC1 MAGic wand
The MUC1 glycoprotein in cancer cells may support both metastasis by enhanced adhesion to myelin-associated glycoprotein and apoptosis evasion by constitutive nuclear factor-
B (NF-B) activation.Original research paper: Cancer Res 67, 10222-10029 (2007)
doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-2483Virus hemagglutinins: Sticky structures
The receptor binding sites of both the influenza virus B and the measles virus hemagglutinins (HAs) differ strongly from their closest relatives despite a global structural similarity.
Original research paper: Nat Struct Mol Biol 14, 1227-1228 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nsmb1342
