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

    Genome organization by SATB1 binding to base-unpairing regions (BURs) provides a scaffold for SATB1-regulated gene expression

    Yoshinori Kohwi, Xianrong Wong ... Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu
    Modified ChIP-seq and 4C-seq approaches, using urea-purified crosslinked chromatin, uncovered a two-tiered chromatin organization mediated by SATB1 that is linked to gene expression.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Lipid peroxidation and type I interferon coupling fuels pathogenic macrophage activation causing tuberculosis susceptibility

    Shivraj M Yabaji, Vadim Zhernovkov ... Igor Kramnik
    Myc dysregulation in activated macrophages impairs antioxidant defenses, locking them in a vicious cycle that amplifies type I interferon signaling, driving hyperinflammation and immunosuppression.
    1. Neuroscience

    Age-related changes in ‘cortical’ 1/f dynamics are linked to cardiac activity

    Fabian Schmidt, Sarah K Danböck ... Nathan Weisz
    Age-related differences in cortical aperiodic signals can be driven by cardiac influences, emphasizing the need to control for cardiac contributions in studies interpreting cortically measured aperiodic dynamics.
    1. Neuroscience

    Balancing safety and efficiency in human decision-making

    Pranav Mahajan, Shuangyi Tong ... Ben Seymour
    A separate fear system, flexibly gated by outcome uncertainty, guides decision-making to be both safe and efficient during exploration.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Endophilin A1 facilitates organization of the GABAergic postsynaptic machinery to maintain excitation-inhibition balance

    Xue Chen, Deng Pan ... Yanrui Yang
    Endophilin A1 at postsynaptic sites promotes inhibitory postsynaptic organization through interaction with gephyrin to maintain E/I balance, which is essential for the suppression of epilepsy susceptibility.
    1. Neuroscience

    Micro-scale control of oligodendrocyte morphology and myelination by the intellectual disability-linked protein acyltransferase ZDHHC9

    Hey-Kyeong Jeong, Estibaliz Gonzalez-Fernandez ... Gareth M Thomas
    Loss of ZDHHC9, a protein acyltransferase that is highly expressed in oligodendrocytes, does not grossly impact myelination but markedly alters oligodendrocyte morphology and myelination at the micro/nano-scale.
    1. Neuroscience

    Patchy striatonigral neurons modulate locomotor vigor in response to environmental valence

    Sarah Hawes, Bo Liang ... Huaibin Cai
    Patchy striatonigral neurons regulate implicit locomotor speed selection based on environmental valence, revealing a subtype-specific mechanism by which striatal circuits shape adaptive motor control and value-dependent behavioral responses.
    1. Neuroscience

    The influence of temporal context on vision over multiple time scales

    Kacie Lee, Reuben Rideaux
    Across multiple scales, temporal context shapes visual perception through an attention-dependent process facilitating rapid motor responses and an attention-independent process suppressing neural encoding of expected events.
    1. Neuroscience

    Diverse calcium dynamics underlie place field formation in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells

    Mate Sumegi, Gaspar Olah ... Zoltan Nusser
    Two-photon Ca2+ imaging reveals that place fields of hippocampal place cells emerge with variable cellular mechanisms.
    1. Neuroscience

    Nonlinear feedback modulation contributes to the optimization of flexible decision-making

    Xuanyu Wu, Yang Zhou
    Precise feedback connections in posterior parietal cortex enable iterative computation between decision processes, optimizing flexible decision-making reliability.