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. Cancer Biology

    S100a4+ alveolar macrophages accelerate the progression of precancerous atypical adenomatous hyperplasia by promoting the angiogenic function regulated by fatty acid metabolism

    Hong Huang, Ying Yang ... Le Zhang
    S100a4+ alveolar macrophages facilitate angiogenesis through CPT1A-PPAR-γ-mediated fatty acid metabolism, thereby triggering atypical adenomatous hyperplasia.
    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Polyphosphate discriminates protein conformational ensembles more efficiently than DNA promoting diverse assembly and maturation behaviors

    Saloni Goyal, Divya Rajendran ... Athi N Naganathan
    Polyphosphate, a universal stress response regulator, binds distinctively to different starting ensembles of the same protein leading to either condensates or aggregates that in turn can solubilize or further aggregate, showcasing their ability to finely control the assembly process.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Harnessing AlphaFold to reveal hERG channel conformational state secrets

    Khoa Ngo, Pei-Chi Yang ... Igor Vorobyov
    Customized AlphaFold-based modeling of distinct functional states of the hERG channel, a major drug anti-target, significantly improves drug affinity predictions, enhancing cardiac safety screening for arrhythmia risk.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    PRDM16 functions as a co-repressor in the BMP pathway to suppress neural stem cell proliferation

    Li He, Jiayu Wen, Qi Dai
    PRDM16 directs BMP signaling outcomes by guiding SMAD complex genomic binding to repress neural stem cell proliferation and promote choroid plexus epithelial specification.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Self-other generalisation shapes social interaction and is disrupted in borderline personality disorder

    Joseph M Barnby, Jen Nguyen ... London Personality and Mood Disorders Consortium
    Individuals with borderline personality disorder maintain rigid, distinct self-other representations, disrupting the bidirectional generalisation that underpins adaptive social learning and interpersonal trust.
    1. Neuroscience

    Ultraslow serotonin oscillations in the hippocampus delineate substates across NREM and waking

    Claire Cooper, Daniel Parthier ... Dietmar Schmitz
    The fine-tuning of mutual inhibition and disinhibition of sleep-regulating neurons and also the memory consolidation that occurs during NREM sleep are controlled by oscillations in serotonin levels.
    1. Cell Biology

    The microbiome interacts with the circadian clock and dietary composition to regulate metabolite cycling in the Drosophila gut

    Yueliang Zhang, Sara B Noya ... Amita Sehgal
    The Drosophila microbiome regulates the cycling of gut metabolites in a circadian clock and diet-dependent manner.
    1. Neuroscience

    Acquisition of auditory discrimination mediated by different processes through two distinct circuits linked to the lateral striatum

    Susumu Setogawa, Takashi Okauchi ... Kazuto Kobayashi
    Two lateral striatal subregions integrate the acquisition of stimulus-based decision-making in spatiotemporally and functionally different manners, challenging the prior model through a dominance change from the associative to sensorimotor subregions.
    1. Developmental Biology

    NR2F2 is required in the embryonic testis for fetal Leydig cell development

    Aitana Perea-Gomez, Natividad Bellido Carreras ... Marie-Christine Chaboissier
    NR2F2 regulates fetal Leydig cell differentiation and steroidogenesis in mouse testes, providing mechanistic insight into testis development and the etiology of 46,XY differences in sex development.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    My Tran, Angel J Hernandez Viera ... Charlie Y Mo
    In methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, evolution of bacteriophage resistance causes trade-offs that re-sensitize the bacteriato β-lactam antibiotics.