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.
April 2009
Neural development: Proteoglycans go forth to multiply
Sonic hedgehog requires interactions with proteoglycans to achieve cell proliferation, but not tissue patterning
Original research paper: Nature Neuroscience (15 Mar 2009)
doi:10.1038/nn.2287N-glycans in protein folding: Operating unchaperoned
Core N-glycans of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) enhance its folding and stability, independently of lectin-like chaperones
Original research paper: J. Cell Biol. 184, 847-862 (2009)
doi:10.1083/jcb.200808124
