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
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Sarcomere dynamic instability and stochastic heterogeneity drive robust cardiomyocyte contraction

    Daniel Haertter, Lara Hauke ... Christoph F Schmidt
    A non-monotonic force–velocity relationship in cardiac sarcomeres causes dynamic instability, leading to stochastic heterogeneity in contracting cardiomyocytes, which can have a protective function.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Acyl carrier protein is essential for apicoplast biogenesis in malaria parasites independent of fatty acid synthesis

    Sage WR Geher, Seyi Falekun ... Paul A Sigala
    Malaria parasites have evolved a noncanonical function for the apicoplast acyl carrier protein in stabilizing pyruvate kinase II, a metabolic hub essential for isoprenoid synthesis and parasite survival.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Clonal stochasticity in early NK cell response to mouse cytomegalovirus is generated by mature subsets of varying proliferative ability

    Darren Wethington, Saeed Ahmad ... Jayajit Das
    Stochastic fluctuations play an important role in the MCMV-induced NK cell clonal expansion that ultimately gives rise to memory NK cells.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Intersecting experimental evolution and CRISPR screens to identify novel toxin resistance loci

    Michele Marconcini, Steeve Cruchet ... Richard Benton
    Selection of animal populations and of cultured cells provides complementary datasets to identify candidate genes involved in conferring resistance to a natural insecticide.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Nerve injury-induced protein 2 preserves lysosomal membrane integrity to suppress ferroptosis

    Jin Zhang, Miranda Bustamante ... Xinbin Chen
    Revealing a role for NINJ2 in maintaining lysosomal homeostasis and preventing ferroptosis, laying the foundation for the development of cancer therapeutics targeting NINJ2.
    1. Neuroscience

    PRRT2 as an auxiliary regulator of Nav channel slow inactivation

    Bin Lu, Qi-Wu Xu ... Zhi-Qi Xiong
    PRRT2 is identified as a conserved regulator of sodium channel slow inactivation that helps protect the neurons from excessive excitability.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    In vitro sexual dimorphism establishment in schistosomes

    Rémi Pichon, Magda E Lotkowska ... Gabriel Rinaldi
    Establishment of sexually dimorphic schistosomes entirely in vitro from mechanically transformed cercariae paves the way for uncovering the cellular and molecular cues underlying development, providing potential targets for novel control strategies.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    The genetic control of rapid genome content divergence in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Christopher J Fiscus, Daniel Koenig
    Repeat variation in wild Arabidopsis thaliana arises from centromere-proximal sequence changes and rare variants in DNA replication, repair, and methylation genes, consistent with purifying selection constraining genome expansion.
    1. Cell Biology

    Nim1-related kinases regulate septin organization and cytokinesis by modulating Hof1 at the cell division site

    Bindu Bhojappa, Anubhav Dhar ... Saravanan Palani
    Septin-associated kinases functions in an adaptable regulatory network with overlapping functions to coordinate septin organization with actomyosin ring machinery to ensure robust cytokinesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.