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. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Short activation domains control chromatin association of transcription factors

    Vinson B Fan, Abrar A Abidi ... Max V Staller
    Single-molecule tracking of transcription factors in living cells revealed how mutations that make short activation domains stronger increased the fraction of transcription factor molecules bound to chromatin and led to longer residence times on chromatin.
    1. Neuroscience

    Two classes of amine/glutamate multi-transmitter neurons innervate Drosophila internal male reproductive organs

    Marta Chaverra, John Paul Toney ... R Steven Stowers
    Drosophila internal male reproductive organs exhibit parallel innervation by two types of multi-transmitter neurons, a subset of which are essential for fertility, and organ-specific spatially discrete neurotransmitter receptor expression.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Affinity-guided labeling reveals P2X7 nanoscale membrane redistribution during BV2 microglial activation

    Benoit Arnould, Adeline Martz ... Thomas Grutter
    An affinity-guided chemical strategy enabling highly specific biotinylation of P2X7 receptors reveals, by super-resolution microscopy, how the nanoscale organization of endogenous P2X7 in BV2 microglial cells dynamically changes upon activation.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    The interplay between biomolecular assembly and phase separation

    Giacomo Bartolucci, Ivar S Haugerud ... Christoph A Weber
    Biomolecular assembly typically promotes phase separation while the presence of coexisting phases alters assembly kinetics.
    1. Neuroscience

    Barcode activity in a recurrent network model of the hippocampus enables efficient memory binding

    Ching Fang, Jack W Lindsey ... Selmaan N Chettih
    The representation of individual memories in a recurrent neural network can be efficiently differentiated using chaotic recurrent dynamics.
    1. Neuroscience

    Dissecting surveying behavior of reactive microglia under chronic neurodegeneration

    Sunitha Subhramanian, Olga Bocharova ... Ilia V Baskakov
    In chronic neurodegeneration associated with prion disease, reactive microglia adopt a highly mobile, neuron-by-neuron surveillance strategy, replacing homeostatic process-based monitoring with dynamic somatic migration and prolonged neuronal engagement.
    1. Neuroscience

    Pupil dilation offers a time-window on prediction error

    Olympia Colizoli, Tessa M van Leeuwen ... Harold Bekkering
    Pupil dilation provides a physiological readout of information gain during the brain's internal process of belief updating in the context of associative learning.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Cross-species evaluation of TANGO2 homologs, including HRG-9 and HRG-10 in Caenorhabditis elegans, challenges a proposed role in heme trafficking

    Sarah E Sandkuhler, Kayla S Youngs ... Samuel J Mackenzie
    Evidence from multiple model systems supports a shift away from heme transport and toward metabolic dysfunction and oxidative stress as key drivers of TANGO2 deficiency.
    1. Neuroscience

    Phase-specific premotor inhibition modulates leech rhythmic motor output

    Martina Radice, Agustin Sanchez Merlinsky ... Lidia Szczupak
    Premotor nonspiking neurons regulate the level of motor activity through a recurrent inhibitory circuit.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Reconstructing voice identity from noninvasive auditory cortex recordings

    Charly Lamothe, Etienne Thoret ... Pascal Belin
    A low-dimensional voice latent space derived from deep learning captures speaker-identity representations in the temporal voice areas and supports reconstruction of voices preserving identity information.