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. Immunology and Inflammation

    Depletion of extracellular asparagine impairs self-reactive T cells and ameliorates autoimmunity in a murine model of multiple sclerosis

    Peter Georgiev, Sheila Johnson ... Arlene H Sharpe
    A comprehensive investigation of extracellular asparagine utilization highlights its role as a critical regulator of murine CD4+ T cell activation, differentiation, and function.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Lenacapavir-induced lattice hyperstabilization is central to HIV-1 capsid failure at the nuclear pore complex and in the cytoplasm

    Arpa Hudait, Ryan C Burdick ... Gregory A Voth
    Lenacapavir disrupts HIV-1 capsid elasticity, inducing mechanical rupture at the nuclear pore, highlighting that altering viral material properties can be a viable antiviral drug design strategy.
    1. Neuroscience

    Development of auditory and spontaneous movement responses to music over the first postnatal year

    Trinh Nguyen, Félix Bigand ... Giacomo Novembre
    Although auditory encoding of music is robust early in infancy, the transformation of this input into movement patterns develops substantially over the first postnatal year, without reaching full maturity.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Profiling of terminating ribosomes reveals translational control at stop codons

    Longfei Jia, Yuanhui Mao ... Shu-Bing Qian
    Systematic characterization of terminating ribosomes uncovers sequence features influencing ribosome dynamics at stop codons with direct implications in 3' UTR translation.
    1. Neuroscience

    Continuous developmental changes in word recognition and language learning across early childhood

    Michael C Frank, Virginia A Marchman ... Martin Zettersten
    Analysis of data across many different studies shows that children's word recognition improves continuously from infancy through age 5 years, and shows strong coupling with early vocabulary.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Pervasive relaxed selection on spermatogenesis genes coincident with the evolution of polygyny in gorillas

    Jacob D Bowman, Neide Silva ... Vincent J Lynch
    Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Ligand-dependent enhancer activation indirectly modulates non-target promoters in a chromatin domain

    Darshika Bohra, Zubairul Islam ... Dimple Notani
    Ligand-driven enhancer activation selectively boosts target gene expression while indirectly repressing neighboring non-target genes, revealing dynamic and competitive regulation during early transcriptional responses.
    1. Neuroscience

    Multiple event segmentation mechanisms in the human brain

    Tan T Nguyen, Joset A Etzel ... Jeffrey M Zacks
    The brain uses separate prediction error and prediction uncertainty signals to trigger event boundaries.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Impacts of DNA methylation on H2A.Z deposition and nucleosome stability

    Rochelle M Shih, Yasuhiro Arimura ... Hironori Funabiki
    DNA methylation suppresses H2A.Z deposition by inhibiting recruitment of the chaperone SRCAP, while the structural study suggests that methylated DNA can make the H2A.Z nucleosome slightly more accessible.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Arrayed single-gene perturbations identify drivers of human anterior neural tube closure

    Roya E Huang, Giridhar M Anand ... Sharad Ramanathan
    A method for arrayed CRISPRi screening in organoids enables the investigation of morphogenesis in human stem cell-derived tissues, revealing the roles of ZIC2, SOX11, and ZNF521 in neural tube closure.