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.
October 2008
Bacterial glycans and mammalian lectins: A precarious balance
Gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) upregulates the soluble lectin RegIII
which kills gram-positive bacteria in the intestines, whereas LPS-induced sepsis can be averted by the lectin-like domain of thrombomodulin.Original research paper: Nature, (24 August 2008)
doi:10.1038/nature07250Protein O-glycosylation: Drosophila on acid
O-glycan profiling of Drosophila melanogaster reveals a wide abundance of glucuronic acid and a concentration gradient of a fucosylated trisaccharide known to modify the Notch receptor.
Original research paper: Journal of Biological Chemistry, (25 August 2008)
doi:10.1074/jbc.M804925200
