A Research Advance is a short article that allows either the authors of an eLife paper or other researchers to publish new results that build on the original research paper in an important way.
NMR and clustering results show that N-terminal acetylation of α-syn enhances its binding to the neutral phospholipid lysophosphatidylcholine, thereby promoting its function of clustering synaptic vesicles.
Mrityunjay Singh, Dinesh C Indurthi ... Shailendra Asthana
MD-simulations reveal low- to high-affinity conformational shift of orthosteric site in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, offering insight into agonist roles in activation dynamics, and highlighting the utility of agonist efficiency.
Satoshi Ninagawa, Masaki Matsuo ... Kazutoshi Mori
The fate of glycoproteins in the endoplasmic reticulum whether they are directed toward folding or targeted to degradation depends on a tug of war between UGGT1 and EDEM family proteins.
Augusto Berrocal, Nicholas C Lammers ... Michael B Eisen
Drosophila melanogastereven-skipped enhancers control transcriptional bursting by modulating frequency and amplitude, regardless of varying transcription factor inputs, even when mutated to express in embryonic regions not under selective pressure.
Commonly used covalent PPARγ inhibitors weaken, but do not block, binding of other ligands via an allosteric mechanism where ligands clash with a covalent ligand-induced transcriptionally repressive structural conformation.
Sebastian Quiroz Monnens, Casper Peters ... Bernhard Englitz
The recurrent temporal restricted Boltzmann machine applied to whole-brain neuronal recordings from larval zebrafish brains provides substantial advantages in discovering the neuronal assembly structure and their connectivity.
Aurélie Anne-Gaëlle Gabriel, Julien Racle ... David Gfeller
EPIC-ATAC accurately quantifies cell-type heterogeneity in tumor bulk ATAC-Seq samples using reliable cell-type specific chromatin accessibility markers for the major cell types found in tumor microenvironments.
Yucheng Liang, Jean-Emmanuel Hugonnet ... Michel Arthur
The Braun lipoprotein is tethered to peptidoglycan independently from the insertion of newly-synthesized peptidoglycan subunits into the expanding cell wall generating a dynamic equilibrium between free and bound protein forms.
