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

    A forebrain hub for cautious actions via the midbrain

    Ji Zhou, Muhammad Sarmad Sajid ... Manuel A Castro-Alamancos
    Cautious action timing under threat depends on glutamatergic signaling from the subthalamic nucleus to the midbrain, revealing a circuit mechanism for adaptive goal-directed behavior.
    1. Neuroscience

    Causal evidence for a domain-specific role of left superior frontal sulcus in human perceptual decision-making

    Miguel Barretto-Garcia, Marcus Grueschow ... Christian C Ruff
    Disrupting left superior frontal sulcus selectively impaired perceptual but not value-based decisions, revealing segregated prefrontal circuits for integrating sensory evidence versus subjective preferences in human choice behaviour.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    The representation of facial emotion expands from sensory to prefrontal cortex with development

    Xiaoxu Fan, Abhishek Tripathi, Kelly Bijanki
    Facial emotion representations expand from sensory cortex to prefrontal regions across development, suggesting that the prefrontal cortex matures with development to enable a full understanding of facial emotion.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Mitochondrial protein carboxyl-terminal alanine-threonine tailing promotes human glioblastoma growth by regulating mitochondrial function

    Bei Zhang, Ting Cai ... Zhihao Wu
    The carboxyl-terminal alanine-threonine-tailed protein ATP5α helps glioblastoma mitochondria maintain a high membrane potential and keep the permeability transition pore closed, thereby promoting tumor growth and increasing resistance to apoptosis.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Accelerated evolution in networked metapopulations of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Partha Pratim Chakraborty, Rees Kassen
    Centralized migration accelerates adaptation and drives parallel evolution, emphasizing the key influence of spatial organization on evolutionary dynamics across systems from pathogen transmission to species range shifts.
    1. Neuroscience

    Human brain dynamics and spatiotemporal trajectories during threat processing

    Joyneel Misra, Luiz Pessoa
    Intrinsic neural attractors and extrinsic environmental inputs jointly steer the dynamic trajectories of brain activity during threat processing.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Single-cell transcriptomics identifies altered neutrophil dynamics and accentuated T-cell cytotoxicity in tobacco-flavored e-cigarette-exposed mouse lungs

    Gagandeep Kaur, Thomas Lamb ... Irfan Rahman
    Profiling cell-specific immune responses reveals altered neutrophil function and enhanced T-cell mediated cell death following acute in vivo exposure to tobacco-flavored e-cigarette aerosol using single-cell technology.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Feeding rates in sessile versus motile ciliates are hydrodynamically equivalent

    Jingyi Liu, Yi Man ... Eva Kanso
    Fluid flow analysis reveals that both swimming and sessile ciliates achieve competitive nutrient uptake, resolving the long-standing debate over the hydrodynamic advantage of either strategy.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Allosteric effects of the coupling cation in melibiose transporter MelB

    Parameswaran Hariharan, Yuqi Shi ... Lan Guan
    Intrinsic conformational flexibility of a solute transporter is restrained by substrates, resulting in Na+ allosterically enhancing primary substrate binding through cooperative constraints on the dynamics of the cytoplasmic inner barrier.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Cryo-EM structure revealed a novel F-actin binding motif in a Legionella pneumophila lysine fatty acyltransferase

    Wenjie W Zeng, Garrison Komaniecki ... Yuxin Mao
    A novel F-actin-binding motif consisting of an α-helix hairpin from a Legionella pneumophila lysine fatty acyltransferase has the potential to be developed as an F-actin probe.