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 2010
Carbohydrate vaccines: Desperately seeking non-self antigens
Structure-activity relationships of antigenic carbohydrates reveal that 'non-self' sugars can break immune tolerance while promoting 'self' recognition.
Original research paper: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 17107-17112 (2010)
doi:10.1073/pnas.1002717107Insulin signaling: A sweet hypothesis sours
Careful usage of improved inhibitors debunks the idea that insulin resistance can be caused by elevated O-GlcNAc–modified proteins.
Original research paper: Chem. Biol. 17, 937-948 (2010)
doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2010.07.006
