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.
March 2009
Targeted protein transport: Show your sugar pass
N-glycosylation of cystatin F enables endocytic entry in both expressing and neighbouring cells.
Original research paper: Traffic (Published online 24 Jan 2009)
doi:10.1111/j.1600-0854.2009.00881.xLung metastasis: Novel carbohydrate receptors open the door
Sfrs proteins expressed on mouse lung capillaries bind cancer-associated carbohydrates and permit lung metastasis
Original research paper: PNAS 106, 3095-3100 (2009)
doi:10.1073/pnas.0810110106
