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. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    G-protein-coupled receptor diversity and evolution in the closest living relatives of metazoa

    Alain Garcia De Las Bayonas, Nicole King
    Up-to-date computational pipeline characterizes G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) repertoires in the closest relatives of metazoans, providing a framework to investigate the evolutionary origins and ancestral functions of key metazoan signaling pathways.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    A green lifetime biosensor for calcium that remains bright over its full dynamic range

    Franka H van der Linden, Stephen C Thornquist ... Joachim Goedhart
    Directed evolution was used to engineer a green fluorescent biosensor for quantitative calcium imaging that remains fluorescent, yet shows a large change in lifetime in cells.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Applying 3D correlative structured illumination microscopy and X-ray tomography to characterise herpes simplex virus-1 morphogenesis

    Kamal L Nahas, Viv Connor ... Colin M Crump
    Deletion of specific herpes simplex virus proteins prevents the progression of virus assembly at discrete stages, allowing detailed 3D imaging of rare events in the morphogenesis of virus particles.
    1. Cell Biology

    Testosterone-induced metabolic changes in seminal vesicle epithelium modify seminal plasma components with potential to improve sperm motility

    Takahiro Yamanaka, Zimo Xiao ... Masayuki Shimada
    Testosterone promotes the conversion of glucose to fatty acids by increasing the expression of ACLY in seminal vesicle epithelial cells, thereby regulating the seminal plasma components.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Multi-gradient permutation survival analysis identifies mitosis and immune signatures steadily associated with cancer patient prognosis

    Xinlei Cai, Yi Ye ... Hongbin Ji
    Genes steadily associated with prognosis define conserved mitotic and immune programs that robustly predict cancer patient survival and therapeutic resistance across tumor types.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Extracellular adenosine deamination primes tip organizer development in Dictyostelium

    Pavani Hathi, Baskar Ramamurthy
    Extracellular adenosine deamination by ADGF generates ammonia that directs tip organizer development, revealing a conserved metabolic mechanism linking nucleotide turnover to developmental regulation.
    1. Neuroscience

    On CA1 ripple oscillations in rats and the reassessment of asynchronicity evidence

    Robson Scheffer-Teixeira, Adriano BL Tort
    Ripples maintain time-locked occurrence across the septo-temporal axis and hemispheres while showing local phase coupling, revealing a dual mode of synchrony in CA1 network dynamics.
    1. Plant Biology

    An increase of NPY1 expression leads to inhibitory phosphorylation of PIN-FORMED (PIN) proteins and suppression of pinoid (pid) null mutants

    Michael Mudgett, Zhouxin Shen ... Yunde Zhao
    A cause and impact of PIN-FORMED protein phosphorylation has been revealed.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    An in vitro human vessel model to study Neisseria meningitidis colonization and vascular damages

    Léa Pinon, Melanie Chabaud ... Guilllaume Dumenil
    A vessel on a chip microfluidic device recapitulates the main features of meningococcal vascular colonization, providing high time and space microscopy resolution of the infection process in 3D.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Transcriptional subtypes on immune microenvironment and predicting postoperative recurrence and metastasis in human pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma

    Yang Liu, Xu Yan ... Lingyu Li
    Distinct transcriptional subtypes in PPGLs link molecular programs with immune context, providing biomarkers for recurrence risk and therapeutic targeting.