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. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Deletion of the moeA gene in Flavobacterium IR1 drives structural color shift from green to blue and alters polysaccharide metabolism

    Álvaro Escobar Doncel, Constantinos Patinios ... Colin J Ingham
    Disrupting a single molybdenum cofactor gene allowed us to connect metabolic regulation of complex carbohydrates with cell organization, enabling genetic tuning of bacterial structural color for biomaterial applications.
    1. Neuroscience

    Differential destinations, dynamics, and functions of high- and low-order features in the feedback signal during object processing

    Wenhao Hou, Sheng He, Jiedong Zhang
    Feedback signals to the early visual cortex convey both high-order and low-order visual information, but with different laminar profiles, and the high-order information is important for object recognition.
    1. Cell Biology

    Specific proteolysis mediated by a p97-directed proteolysis-targeting chimera (p97-PROTAC)

    Constanza Salinas-Rebolledo, Javier Blesa ... Alejandro Rojas-Fernandez
    Synthetic adaptors combining camelid nanobodies with the UBX domain of the p97 adaptor FAF1 enable targeted substrate delivery to p97, establishing an E3 ubiquitin ligase-independent mechanism for selective protein degradation.
    1. Cell Biology

    JAK-STAT pathway activation compromises nephrocyte function in a Drosophila high-fat diet model of chronic kidney disease

    Yunpo Zhao, Jianli Duan ... Zhe Han
    A conserved signaling axis linking Drosophila adipose tissue to nephrocyte function reveals how obesity can drive kidney dysfunction and points to new opportunities for therapeutic intervention.
    1. Neuroscience

    Decision-making components and times revealed by the single-trial electroencephalogram

    Gabriel Weindel, Jelmer P Borst, Leendert van Maanen
    By modeling the single-trial electroencephalogram of participants performing perceptual decisions, and building on predictions from two century-old psychological laws, we estimate the times of information processing steps contained in decision-making.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Hybridization breaks species barriers in long-term coevolution of a cyanobacterial population

    Gabriel Birzu, Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan ... Devaki Bhaya
    Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.
    1. Neuroscience

    Coordinated spinal locomotor network dynamics emerge from cell-type-specific connectivity patterns

    F David Wandler, Benjamin K Lemberger ... James M Murray
    A hierarchy of models guided by experimental results from zebrafish shows that coordinated, variable-speed locomotion can emerge from network-level interactions among interneuron populations with structured spatial connectivity.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    The evolution of interdisciplinarity and internationalization in scientific journals

    Huaxia Zhou, Luis A Nunes Amaral
    Analysis of ~50 million articles published in ~50 thousand journals demonstrates that journals have become more diverse in terms of both interdisciplinarity and internationalization but with some disciplinary differences.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Neisseria gonorrhoeae LIN codes provide a robust, multi-resolution lineage nomenclature

    Anastasia Unitt, Made A Krisna ... Odile B Harrison
    LIN code offers a reliable framework for classifying gonococcal population structure, enabling straightforward exploration of isolate relationships, from broad superlineage divisions to minute single allele differences.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Epidermal resident memory T cell fitness requires antigen encounter in the skin

    Eric S Weiss, Toshiro Hirai ... Daniel H Kaplan
    Antigen-driven TCR signaling in the epidermis during CD8+ TRM differentiation results in a lower TGFβ requirement for persistence and increased proliferative capacity that together enhance epidermal TRM fitness.