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.
August 2008
E-selectin ligand formation: Cancer cells dress up for metastasis
Fucosylation is central to the formation of E-selectin ligands in neutrophils and metastasizing cancer cells, however, both cell types initiate endothelial adhesion by forming different ligands.
Original research paper: Glycobiology, (22 July 2008)
doi:10.1093/glycob/cwn070Lectin-glycan interactions: A meeting's harvest
The 23rd Interlec meeting presented a wealth of data that added new evidence to how lectin-glycan interactions orchestrate cellular fate and influence health and disease conditions.
