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.
April 2011
Galectins: Binding gets a boost
A peptide with antitumor activity heightens the affinity of a pro-angiogenic protein for glycoproteins.
Original research paper: J. Biol. Chem., (3 March 2011)
doi:10.1074/jbc.C111.229096Insulin signaling: Snapin snaps pathways together
Mouse models and mutagenesis demonstrate that the two pathways involved in glucose-stimulated insulin secretion converge on a protein previously studied in neuronal synapses.
Original research paper: Cell Metab. 13, 308-319 (2011)
