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. Cell Biology

    Negative regulation of miRNA sorting into EVs is mediated by the capacity of RBP PCBP2 to impair the SYNCRIP-dependent miRNA loading

    Francesco Marocco, Sabrina Garbo ... Marco Tripodi
    PCBP2 promotes miRNA cell retention by counteracting SYNCRIP-dependent miRNAs EV loading.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural insights into heterohexameric assembly of epilepsy-related ligand–receptor complex LGI1–ADAM22

    Takayuki Yamaguchi, Kei Okatsu ... Shuya Fukai
    Cryo-electron microscopy and high-speed atomic force microscopy analyses of an epilepsy-related ligand–receptor complex LGI1–ADAM22 reveal the three-dimensional structure and dynamics of the 3:3 heterohexameric assembly of LGI1–ADAM22.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Human eIF2A has a minimal role in translation initiation and in uORF-mediated translational control in HeLa cells

    Mykola Roiuk, Marilena Neff, Aurelio A Teleman
    Although eIF2A is thought to be a translation initiation factor, loss of eIF2A has no effect on cellular mRNA translation in either unstressed or stressed conditions.
    1. Neuroscience

    Hunger shifts attention and attribute weighting in dietary choice

    Jennifer March, Sebastian Gluth
    Extended multi-attribute attentional drift diffusion model reveals how attentional dynamics and weight shifts lead to less healthy decisions under hunger.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Planar cell polarity coordination in a cnidarian embryo provides clues to animal body axis evolution

    Julie Uveira, Antoine Donati ... Tsuyoshi Momose
    The jellyfish embryonic body axis is globally coordinated by conserved planar cell polarity (PCP) mechanisms and oriented by localised Wnt3 in two steps, highlighting PCP’s role in animal axis evolution.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Exploiting functional regions in the viral RNA genome as druggable entities

    Dehua Luo, Yingge Zheng ... Dengguo Wei
    SHAPE-MaP reveals functional RNA structures in the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus genome, enabling targeted siRNA design and offering a promising strategy to inhibit viral replication.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Cardiac fibroblasts regulate myocardium and coronary vasculature development in the murine heart via the collagen signaling pathway

    Yiting Deng, Yuanhang He ... Guang Li
    Cardiac fibroblasts play a critical role throughout the various phases of murine heart development ranging from the embryonic to the neonatal stage.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    A neuromorphic model of active vision shows how spatiotemporal encoding in lobula neurons can aid pattern recognition in bees

    HaDi MaBouDi, Mark Roper ... James AR Marshall
    Active vision dynamically refines spatiotemporal neural representations, optimising visual processing through scanning behaviour and non-associative learning, providing insights into efficient sensory encoding in dynamic environments.
    1. Neuroscience

    Expansion-assisted selective plane illumination microscopy for nanoscale imaging of centimeter-scale tissues

    Adam Glaser, Jayaram Chandrashekar ... Karel Svoboda
    Large-scale microscopy combined with tissue clearing and expansion enables nanoscale imaging of centimeter scale specimens.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    CD131 contributes to ulcerative colitis pathogenesis by promoting macrophage infiltration

    Zhiyuan Wu, Lindi Liu ... Xiaodong Tan
    CD131 contributes to intestinal inflammation in ulcerative colitis, possibly by promoting the infiltration of macrophages, while targeting CD131 might potentially be a treatment remedy for ulcerative colitis.