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.
September 2009
Cardiac muscle: Sweet heartbeats
Regulated and aberrant glycosylation control cardiac function.
Original research paper: Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. (7 August 2009)
doi:10.1073/pnas.0905414106H. pylori infection: Sugar wars
A human fucosidase secreted in defense against microbial adhesion is exploited by the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori to enhance pathogenicity.
Original research paper: Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. (25 August 2009)
doi:10.1073/pnas.0903286106
