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.
May 2011
Bacterial colonization: A new function for fucose
Fucose, long thought to be just an adherence target for Campylobacter jejuni, seems to serve as a behavior-modifying carbohydrate feedstock as well.
Original research paper: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., (11 April 2011)
doi:10.1073/pnas.1014125108Immunology: Sweet presentation
N-glycans attached to MHCII participate in presentation of a polysaccharide antigen.
Original research paper: The Journal of Experimental Medicine, (18 April 2011)
doi:10.1084/jem.20100508
