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.
August 2009
Profiling proteoglycans: RIP them out
A new approach for the quantitative isolation of proteoglycans facilitates glycomics profiling and functional studies.
Original research paper: J. Biol. Chem. (Published online 13 July 2009)
doi:10.1074/jbc.M109.032755Tumor suppression: Glycosyltransferases loom LARGE
Glycosylation of a laminin-binding protein by
3GnT1 suppresses tumor migration.Original research paper: Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA (2009) 106, 12109-12114
doi:10.1073/pnas.0904515106
