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

    PTBP1 depletion in mature astrocytes reveals distinct splicing alterations without neuronal features

    Min Zhang, Naoto Kubota ... Sika Zheng
    PTBP1 loss in mature astrocytes causes unique astrocytic splicing changes, not neuronal-like, contrasting its role in other non-neuronal cells and indicating PTBP1 depletion alone is ineffective to drive adult-astrocyte-to-neuron conversion.
    1. Neuroscience

    Progressive remote memory decline coincides with parvalbumin interneuron hyperexcitability and enhanced inhibition of cortical engram cells in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

    Julia J van Adrichem, Rolinka J van der Loo ... Ronald E van Kesteren
    Remote memories in Alzheimer’s disease are impaired through loss of inhibitory control over cortical engram neurons by hyperexcitable parvalbumin interneurons.
    1. Neuroscience

    Peripheral glia and neurons jointly regulate activity-induced synaptic remodeling at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction

    Yen-Ching Chang, Yi-Jheng Peng ... Karen T Chang
    Peripheral glia regulate synaptic remodeling at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction by balancing neuron-derived signals and controlling ambient glutamate levels, thereby revealing distinct glial mechanisms in activity-dependent synaptic plasticity.
    1. Neuroscience

    Functional characterization of neuropeptides that act as ligands for both calcitonin-type and pigment-dispersing factor-type receptors in a deuterostome

    Xiao Cong, Huachen Liu ... Muyan Chen
    Cell-line experiments and in vivo functional experiments provide the evidence that CT-type peptides can act as ligands for both CTR/CLR-type and PDF-type receptors in a deuterostome.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    HoxB-derived hoxba and hoxbb clusters are essential for the anterior–posterior positioning of zebrafish pectoral fins

    Morimichi Kikuchi, Renka Fujii ... Akinori Kawamura
    HoxB-dependent anterior–posterior patterning and the evolutionary origin of pectoral fins.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cholecystokinin modulates age-dependent thalamocortical neuroplasticity

    Xiao Li, Jingyu Feng ... Jufang He
    Cholecystokinin gates age-dependent auditory thalamocortical plasticity and, upon supplementation, reverses age-related plasticity decline and improves frequency discrimination.
    1. Neuroscience

    A stochastic RNA editing process targets a select number of sites in individual Drosophila glutamatergic motoneurons

    Andrés B Crane, Michiko O Inouye ... J Troy Littleton
    Patch-seq RNA profiling defines the overall RNA editing landscape and single neuron editing rules for individual genetically defined Drosophila larval motoneurons.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Emergent periodicity in the collective synchronous flashing of fireflies

    Raphael Sarfati, Kunaal Joshi ... Orit Peleg
    Fireflies that gather in swarms synchronize their flashing with rhythmic periodicity and provide insights into a new mechanism for the emergence of synchrony and periodicity.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Quantifying the shape of cells, from Minkowski tensors to p-atic orders

    Lea Happel, Griseldis Oberschelp ... Axel Voigt
    Only rigorous mathematical tools to quantify the shape of cells can guarantee reliable results in coarse-grained descriptions of tissue dynamics.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Conduction pathway for potassium through the Escherichia coli pump KdpFABC

    Adel Hussein, Xihui Zhang ... David L Stokes
    The path of potassium through an ATP-dependent membrane pump is elucidated with a high-resolution structure within a lipid bilayer together with mutational analysis at key points along this pathway.