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.
March 2010
Making glycoproteins: Bacteria go animal
A new method combines engineered bacteria with in vitro glycan processing to produce proteins with homogenous mammalian N-glycosylation.
Original research paper: Nature Chemical Biology (published online 28 February 2010)
doi:10.1038/nchembio.314N-glycans: The time is ripe
Two N-glycan processing enzymes accelerate tomato ripening; inhibition of these enzymes produces a longer-lasting fruit.
Original research paper: Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 107, 2413-2418 (2010)
doi:10.1073/pnas.0909329107
