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A COG in the sugar machine

Defects in a Golgi protein, COG7, underlie a disorder that kills children in the first year of life. The disorder is the first to be defined in a class that will likely expand with future studies (pages 518–523).

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Figure 1: Glycosylation reactions in the Golgi.

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Marquardt, T. A COG in the sugar machine. Nat Med 10, 457–458 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0504-457

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