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. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Coupled equilibria of dimerization and lipid binding modulate SARS Cov 2 Orf9b interactions and interferon response

    CJ San Felipe, Jyoti Batra ... James S Fraser
    Lipid binding stabilizes the SARS-CoV-2 Orf9b homodimer, slowing its conversion to the Tom70-binding monomeric form and modulating interferon suppression.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Medicine

    Monitoring circulating cell-free HPV DNA in metastatic or recurrent cervical cancer: clinical significance and treatment implications

    Zhuomin Yin, Tao Feng ... Hanmei Lou
    HPV cfDNA is a highly effective tumor marker for monitoring disease progression and treatment response in HPV-positive cervical cancer, offering valuable insights for guiding clinical decisions in precision medicine.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Fast evolutionary turnover and overlapping variances of sex-biased gene expression patterns defy a simple binary sex classification of somatic tissues

    Chen Xie, Sven Künzel, Diethard Tautz
    Sex-biased gene expression in the body organs evolves rapidly, supporting a mosaic model of maleness and femaleness across tissues and thus challenging binary views of sex characteristics in mammals.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Impact of maximal overexpression of a non-toxic protein on yeast cell physiology

    Yuri Fujita, Shotaro Namba ... Hisao Moriya
    A neutrality index identifies mox-YG as a minimally cytotoxic protein, enabling ultra-high expression and uncovering key physiological consequences of protein burden.
    1. Neuroscience

    A novel mouse model for LAMA2-related muscular dystrophy with analysis of molecular pathogenesis and clinical phenotype

    Dandan Tan, Yidan Liu ... Hui Xiong
    Analysis of phenotype and molecular pathogenesis in a new LAMA2-related muscular dystrophy mouse model.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Magnetotactic bacteria optimally navigate natural pore networks

    Alexander P Petroff, Julia Hernandez ... Nina Radchenko-Hannafin
    Diverse magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the local geomagnetic field and grain size to maximize their swimming speed through the pore space.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Prophage regulation of Shewanella fidelis 3313 motility and biofilm formation with implications for gut colonization dynamics in Ciona robusta

    Ojas Natarajan, Susanne L Gibboney ... Larry J Dishaw
    Deleting SfPat prophage reduces Shewanella fidelis motility, increases biofilms, changes pdeB expression and spatial retention in Ciona gut, while Ciona VCBP-C binding to the WT strain results in reduced expression of viral capsid proteins without inducing SOS, indicating tripartite interactions.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Altered thymic niche synergistically drives the massive proliferation of malignant thymocytes

    Erika Tsingos, Advaita M Dick, Baubak Bajoghli
    Combining computer modeling and experiments in animals shows that the spatial organization of thymic epithelial cells affects the availability of signaling molecules that regulate thymocyte proliferation and development.
    1. Neuroscience

    Structure transfer and consolidation in visual implicit learning

    Dominik Garber, József Fiser
    Sleep is essential for consolidating implicitly acquired perceptual knowledge that enables the knowledge transfer effect via newly learned structured information observed in prior studies of explicit learning.
    1. Neuroscience

    The ciliary kinesin KIF7 controls the development of the cerebral cortex by acting differentially on SHH signaling in dorsal and ventral forebrain

    María Pedraza, Valentina Grampa ... Justine Masson
    KIF7 loss of function affects several developmental stages of the cerebral cortex and likely causes neurodevelopmental delay, intellectual disability, and epilepsia observed in ciliopathic patients with KIF7 mutations.