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.
February 2008
Neurotoxins and cancer cells: Gangliosides gangs up
Two studies now describe gangliosides as co-receptors of Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) and as regulators of cancer cell migration.
Original research paper: Journal of Cell Biology 179, 1511-1522 (2007)
doi:10.1083/jcb.200707184Protein-glycan interaction: An umbrella embraces the virus cone
The topology formed by carbohydrate units, and not just their linkage type alone, determines which host cell glycan structures the influenza virus hemagglutinins bind to.
Original research paper: Nature Biotechnology 26, 107-113 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nbt1375
