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.
December 2009
Glycobiology: On the sweet side of life
More than 450 glycoscientists met in San Diego last month for the Annual Conference of the Society for Glycobiology.
Lipoprotein clearance: Sulfated sites of syndecan-1
The heparan sulfate proteoglycan syndecan-1, with specific sulfate modifications, mediates hepatic clearance of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins in vivo.
Original research paper: J. Clin. Invest. 119, 3236-3245 (2009)
doi:10.1172/JCI38251
