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. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A rapid transfer of virions coated with heparan sulfate from the ECM to CD151 defines an early step in the human papillomavirus infection cascade

    Annika Massenberg, Yahya Homsi ... Thorsten Lang
    In an assay focusing on active virus recruitment rather than passive binding, STED microscopy reveals early association of virions to CD151, indicating its early involvement in viral entry platforms formation.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Genome reorganization and its functional impact during breast cancer progression

    Kathleen S Metz Reed, Andrew Fritz ... Tom Misteli
    Genome-wide maps of chromatin structure in a cell-based model of breast cancer reveal chromatin reorganization accompanied by changes in transcription and epigenetic marks.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Host and antibiotic jointly select for greater virulence in Staphylococcus aureus

    Michelle Su, Kim L Hoang ... Timothy D Read
    Antibiotic resistance alters pathogen evolutionary trajectory.
    1. Neuroscience

    Linear and categorical coding units in the mouse gustatory cortex drive population dynamics and behavior in taste decision-making

    Liam Lang, Camelia Yuejiao Zheng ... Alfredo Fontanini
    Linear or categorical activity from neurons in the gustatory cortex is necessary for network dynamics and performance.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Faroese whole genomes provide insight into ancestry and recent selection

    Iman Hamid, Ólavur Mortensen ... Noomi O Gregersen
    Present-day Faroese genomes reveal ancestry, bottleneck history, and signatures of selection, and offer a foundation for understanding the genetic architecture of health and disease in this North Atlantic founder population.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Are interphylum spiralian relationships resolvable?

    Ana Serra Silva, Maximilian J Telford
    Analyses of two independent phylogenomic datasets suggest an explosive radiation at the origin of Spiralia, with implications for understanding the group's evolutionary history.
    1. Neuroscience

    Exposure to false cardiac feedback alters pain perception and anticipatory cardiac frequency

    Eleonora Parrotta, Patric Bach ... Francesca Ferri
    Interoceptive predictions can bias both the subjective experience of pain and physiological preparation.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Nuclear CK1δ as a critical determinant of PER:CRY complex dynamics and circadian period

    Fidel Emmanuel Serrano, Daniela Marzoll ... Michael Brunner
    Repressive PER2:CRY1:CK1δ complexes assembling in the cytosol enter the nucleus, where PER2 hyperphosphorylation eventually disrupts the complex, causing PER2 to relocalize to the cytoplasm, allowing nuclear accumulation of CRY1.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    The DBD-α4 helix of EWSR1::FLI1 is required for GGAA microsatellite binding that underlies genome regulation in Ewing sarcoma

    Ariunaa Bayanjargal, Cenny Taslim ... Emily Rose Theisen
    A discrete helix in the fusion oncoprotein DNA binding domain shifts binding preferences toward long and dense GGAA repeats, which promotes transcriptional hub formation and drives EWSR1::FLI1-mediated gene regulation.
    1. Neuroscience

    Disrupted hippocampal theta-gamma coupling and spike-field coherence following experimental traumatic brain injury

    Christopher D Adam, Ehsan Mirzakhalili ... John A Wolf
    Experimental TBI results in distinct patterns of network-level pathophysiology in the hippocampus that may contribute to TBI-associated cognitive deficits.