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.
October 2009
Stopping HIV: Glycopeptide opens the envelope
A new glycoconjugate, linking a CD4-mimetic peptide with a heparan sulfate oligosaccharide, binds cooperatively to the HIV envelope and neutralizes three virus strains.
Original research paper: Nat. Chem. Bio. 5, 743-748 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nchembio.207Wound healing: Integrin glycans galectin going
Galectin-3 cross-links complex N-glycans on α3β1 integrins to cluster the molecules, activate signaling and promote lamellipodia formation in epithelial wound healing.
Original research paper: J. Cell Sci. (15 September 2009)
doi:10.1074/jbc.M800066200
