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 2008
Cancer cell MUC1: At the tumor stem
The transmembrane mucin MUC1 occurs in a stem cell subpopulation of the breast cancer cell line MCF-7, and can be targeted in an immunotherapeutic approach by chimeric antigen T-cell receptors.
Original research paper: Cancer Research 68, 2419-2426 (2008)
doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-2249Angiogenesis: A small candy for the tumor
The fucosylated histo-blood group glycans H2 and Lewis Y are expressed on subgroups of human endothelial cells and promote migration and tumor angiogenesis.
Original research paper: Journal of Cellular Physiology 215, 27-36 (2008)
doi:10.1002/jcp.21285
