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 2009
GlcNAcylation: RAREing to go
Glycosylation is now implicated in the epigenetic control of transcription, increasing the cellular response to retinoic acid by activation of a histone-modifying nuclear protein.
Original research paper: Nature (published online 19 Apr 2009)
doi:10.1038/nature07954Chondroitin sulfate: Driving bone development
Sulfated chondroitin sulfate and heparan sulfate proteoglycans cooperatively influence a signaling pathway necessary for proper bone growth.
Original research paper: Development 136, 1697-1706 (2009)
doi:10.1242/dev.030742
