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.
July 2010
Spinal injury: Sialidase gets rats moving
After a spinal cord contusion injury, rats recover more motor function when treated with an enzyme that removes terminal sialic acids from complex gangliosides.
Original research paper: Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA (7 June 2010)
doi:10.1073/pnas.1006683107Arthritis: Lubricin and inflammatory sugar
Glycan structures of lubricin, a lubricating component of synovial fluid, are different in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, with implications for inflammatory processes.
Original research paper: Biochem. J. (5 May 2010)
doi:10.1042/bj20100360
