Research Articles

Research Articles published by eLife are full-length studies that present important breakthroughs across the life sciences and biomedicine. There is no maximum length and no limits on the number of display items.

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    1. Neuroscience

    Center-surround inhibition in expectation and its underlying computational and artificial neural network models

    Ling Huang, Shiqi Shen ... Xilin Zhang
    Expectation optimizes perception through center-surround inhibition, enhancing expected representations while suppressing similar, irrelevant ones.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Human RAP2A homolog of the Drosophila asymmetric cell division regulator Rap2l targets the stemness of glioblastoma stem cells

    Maribel Franco, Ricardo Gargini ... Ana Carmena
    Restitution of RAP2A, human homolog of Drosophila asymmetric cell division regulator Rap2l, in glioblastoma neurosphere cultures targets the stemness of glioblastoma stem cells and could contribute to reduce glioblastoma expansion.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The Shigella flexneri effector IpaH1.4 facilitates RNF213 degradation and protects cytosolic bacteria against interferon-induced ubiquitylation

    Luz Saavedra-Sanchez, Mary S Dickinson ... Jorn Coers
    The enteric bacterial Shigella secretes a virulence factor that degrades the pivotal human defense protein RNF213, thereby protecting cytosolic bacteria from interferon-driven ubiquitylation and associated innate immunity.
    1. Neuroscience

    Prosapip1 (encoded by the Lzts3 gene) in the dorsal hippocampus mediates synaptic protein composition, long-term potentiation, and spatial memory

    Zachary W Hoisington, Himanshu Gangal ... Dorit Ron
    Novel function of Prosapip1, a scaffolding protein highly expressed in the hippocampus, in maintaining postsynaptic density integrity and plays a vital role in synaptic plasticity, learning, and memory.
    1. Cell Biology

    Specific proteolysis mediated by a p97-directed proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC)

    Constanza Salinas-Rebolledo, Javier Blesa ... Alejandro Rojas-Fernandez
    1. Cell Biology

    The RAB27A effector SYTL5 regulates mitophagy and mitochondrial metabolism

    Ana Lapão, Lauren Sophie Johnson ... Anne Simonsen
    RAB27A-dependent mitochondrial recruitment of SYTL5 promotes mitophagy and mitochondrial bioenergetics upon hypoxia.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolution of gene expression in seasonal environments

    Shuichi N Kudo, Yuka Ikezaki ... Akiko Satake
    A comparative analysis of genome-wide seasonal gene expression dynamics across four forest tree species revealed that a shared 'molecular calendar' emerges in winter, constraining gene expression evolution and potentially limiting temporal niche partitioning and species divergence in seasonal environments.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Decapping activators Edc3 and Scd6 act redundantly with Dhh1 in post-transcriptional repression of starvation-induced pathways

    Rakesh Kumar, Fan Zhang ... Alan G Hinnebusch
    Multi-omics analyses reveal redundant functions of yeast mRNA decapping activators Scd6 and Edc3 in facilitating recruitment of helicase Dhh1 and accelerating degradation of transcripts required for respiration in glucose-replete cells.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Avoidance of hydrogen sulfide is modulated by external and internal states in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Longjun Pu, Lina Zhao ... Changchun Chen
    Mitochondrial remodeling, ROS-dependent signaling, and diverse environmental and physiological cues underlie the initiation and persistence of locomotory activity of C. elegans in toxic H2S.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    RBMX2 links Mycobacterium bovis infection to epithelial–mesenchymal transition and lung cancer progression

    Chao Wang, Yongchong Peng ... Yingyu Chen
    Integrative analyses uncover RBMX2 as a pivotal mediator that bridges Mycobacterium bovis infection to epithelial–mesenchymal transition and tumor progression in the lung.