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. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Characterization of an early-diverging KCNE potassium-channel auxiliary subunit in the jawless vertebrate lamprey

    Go Kasuya, Kaei Ryu ... Koichi Nakajo
    A lamprey KCNE protein provides insight into the early evolution of vertebrate potassium-channel regulation.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    A membrane insertion code for intrinsically disordered proteins

    Fidha Nazreen Kunnath Muhammedkutty, Huan-Xiang Zhou
    A sequence-based method dubbed AroMIP predicts the membrane insertion propensities of aromatic-centered motifs, thereby advancing mechanistic understanding of membrane insertion and enriching the tools for studying intrinsically disordered protein (IDP)-membrane association.
    1. Neuroscience

    Adaptive behavior is guided by integrated representations of controlled and non-controlled information

    Bingfang Huang, Harrison Ritz, Jiefeng Jiang
    Controlled and non-controlled information are simultaneously encoded within an integrated representation in partially overlapping neural subspaces, and the strengths of both representations jointly predict performance.
    1. Neuroscience

    Top-down feedback in deep neural networks leads to functional differences during audiovisual integration

    Mashbayar Tugsbayar, Mingze Li ... Blake Richards
    Gain-modulating top-down feedback introduces behavioral differences between otherwise identical neural networks, particularly in a network with connectivity based on the human brain, which displays a flexible visual bias similar to that seen in humans.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Optimising the tilt increment for in situ cryo-electron tomography

    Maarten Willem Tuijtel, Tomáš Majtner ... Martin Beck
    For in situ cryo-electron tomography, smaller tilt increments yield better-aligned tilt-series and higher-quality tomograms, with a 3° increment resulting in optimal subtomogram averaging resolution.
    1. Ecology

    Crickets evade bats via olfaction beyond acoustic cues

    Yannan Li, Wenhao Zhang ... Aiqing Lin
    Olfactory bat avoidance in crickets uncovers an overlooked sensory axis in this classic system and a functional eavesdropping strategy across phylogenetically distant predator–prey interactions.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Multiple molecular pathways to longevity with opposing gene expression programs defining distinct aging strategies in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Zenith D Rudich, Jiaxi Guan ... Jeremy M Van Raamsdonk
    Comparing gene expression across a panel of nine long-lived mutants in a single study reveals that these mutants utilize both common and unique genetic strategies to achieve long life.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural computations in the foveal and peripheral visual fields during active search

    Jie Zhang, Xiaocang Zhu ... Huihui Zhou
    Foveal attentional processing coordinates with peripheral attention to dynamically shape global attention allocation and fixation behavior during active vision.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Thymic selection of the T cell receptor repertoire is biased toward autoimmunity in females

    Hélène Vantomme, Valentin Quiniou ... David Klatzmann
    Sex-specific biases in thymic T cell receptor selection enrich female CD8 T cell repertoires for autoimmunity-associated self-antigens, helping explain women’s increased susceptibility to autoimmune diseases.
    1. Neuroscience

    Visuomotor mismatch EEG responses over occipital cortex of freely moving human subjects

    Magdalena Solyga, Marek Zelechowski, Georg B Keller
    Visuomotor mismatch events elicit robust human prediction error responses that exceed conventional oddball mismatch negativity, enabling translation of sensorimotor prediction mechanisms from mice to humans.