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.

Latest articles

    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Uncoupling the TFIIH Core and Kinase Modules leads to misregulated RNA polymerase II CTD Serine 5 phosphorylation

    Gabriela Giordano, Robin Buratowski ... Stephen Buratowski
    The TFIIH subunit Tfb3/MAT1 can be split into two parts to uncouple the TFIIH kinase and DNA translocase modules, resulting in unfocused C-terminal domain phosphorylation.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A macroevolution-inspired approach to reveal novel antibiotic resistance mechanisms

    Fernanda T Subtil, Teresa FG Machado ... Luiz Pedro S de Carvalho
    Using macroevolution, species not strains, uncovered important diversity in how mycobacteria respond to and resist antibiotics, revealing novel resistance determinants.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Transcriptional responses to chronic oxidative stress require cholinergic activation of G-protein-coupled receptor signaling

    Kasturi Biswas, Caroline Moore ... Michael M Francis
    Muscarinic cholinergic signaling links neural activity to organism‑wide transcriptional and proteostatic responses that protect against chronic oxidative stress.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Characterization and modulation of human insulin degrading enzyme conformational dynamics to control enzyme activity

    Jordan M Mancl, Wenguang G Liang ... Wei-Jen Tang
    Integrative structural analysis identifies the structural basis and key residues responsible for IDE conformational dynamics that control the unfolding and selective degradation of amyloid peptides.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Membrane binding controls the ATPase cycle and localization of MinD in Bacillus subtilis

    Helge Feddersen, Charlotte Dyckmans, Marc Bramkamp
    Dynamic relocalization of MinD in Bacillus subtilis arises from membrane binding of monomers and dimers with membrane-triggered ATP hydrolysis, suggesting MinE-like activators are unnecessary for Min system dynamics.
    1. Neuroscience

    Brain-wide arousal signals are segregated from movement planning in the superior colliculus of the macaque

    Richard Johnston, Matthew A Smith
    Arousal signals are present in the superior colliculus but appear to be organized in a way that they avoid directly triggering motor plans that lead to saccades.
    1. Neuroscience

    Growth in early infancy drives optimal brain functional connectivity which predicts cognitive flexibility in later childhood

    Chiara Bulgarelli, Anna Blasi ... The BRIGHT Study Team
    In Gambian infants, positive growth from 0 to 5 months of age predicted more mature brain networks, which in turn predicted cognitive outcomes at 3-5 years.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Quantitative RNA pseudouridine landscape reveals dynamic modification patterns and evolutionary conservation across bacterial species

    Letong Xu, Shenghai Shen ... Xin Deng
    Transcriptome-wide profiling of bacterial RNA pseudouridylation maps modification landscapes and nominates candidate regulatory sites, offering a resource and foundation for future mechanistic studies of Ψ function in bacteria.
    1. Medicine
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Direct MRI of collagen

    Jason Daniel Van Schoor, Markus Weiger ... Klaas P Pruessmann
    The direct observation of collagen using magnetic resonance imaging is possible, presenting a new method to study the protein in vivo.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    CO2-dependent opening of connexin 43 hemichannels

    Valentin Mihai Dospinescu, Alexander Mascarenhas ... Nicholas Dale
    Connexin43 is the most ubiquitously expressed connexin in the human body, and the CO2-dependent opening of Connexin43 hemichannels implies that CO2 may influence many physiological processes.