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.
July 2009
Golgi: Sugar pHorming
Elevated Golgi pH selectively misdirects glycosyltransferase enzymes, impairing complex N-glycosylation.
Original research paper: Journal of Cellular Physiology 220, 144-154 (2009)
doi:10.1002/jcp.21744Carbohydrate length: How to say when
Binding of carbohydrate polymerase to both ends of an initiator allows it to control product length without a template.
Original research paper: PNAS (Published online 2 July 2009)
doi:10.1073/pnas.0901407106
