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. Genetics and Genomics

    Competition for the conserved branch point sequence influences physiological outcomes in pre-mRNA splicing

    Karen Larisssa Pereira de Castro, Jose M Abril ... William S Fagg
    Competition between Quaking and SF1 for a subset of ACUAA intron branch sites influences alternative splicing in different tissues and organisms.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Developmental, regenerative, and behavioral dynamics in acoel reproduction

    Vikram Chandra, Samantha Elizabeth Tseng ... Mansi Srivastava
    Studying the reproductive life history of an acoel reveals that a body-size-dependent program regulates organ growth and regeneration dynamics and discovers a novel form of egg-laying behavior.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Ex vivo and in vivo CRISPR/Cas9 screenings identify the roles of protein N-glycosylation in regulating T-cell activation and functions

    Yu Hong, Xiaofang Si ... Yu Zhang
    Inactivation of beta 1,4-galactosyltransferase 1 leads to enhanced T-cell receptor activation and CD8+ T-cell function by affecting the galactosylation of T-cell receptor and CD8.
    1. Cell Biology

    Specific GPCRs elicit unique extracellular vesicle miRNA array signatures

    Xiao Shi, Michelle C Palumbo ... Aaron J Janowsky
    Unique extracellular vesicle microRNA signatures resulting from G protein-coupled receptor activation indicate distinct downstream signaling and functional networks by receptor, with implications for developing new drugs and understanding their long-term and off-target effects.
    1. Neuroscience

    iGABASnFR2 is an improved genetically encoded protein sensor of GABA

    Ilya Kolb, Jeremy P Hasseman ... Glenn C Turner
    An improved genetically encoded GABA sensor enables the most effective direct optical measurement of inhibitory neurotransmission to date.
    1. Neuroscience

    Profiling presynaptic scaffolds using split-GFP reconstitution reveals cell-type-specific spatial configurations in the fly brain

    Hongyang Wu, Yoh Maekawa ... Hiromu Tanimoto
    Profiling endogenous Bruchpilot proteins in multiple cell types in mushroom bodies uncovered multilayered spatial configurations of active zones, from stereotyped intracellular distribution patterns to local arrangements of neighboring synapses.
    1. Neuroscience

    Visual experience shapes functional connectivity between occipital and non-visual networks

    Mengyu Tian, Xiang Xiao ... Marina Bedny
    At birth, infant visual cortex connectivity resembles that of blind adults, while lifetime visual experience enhances long-range functional connectivity between visual cortices, sensorimotor systems, and dampens connectivity with executive networks.
    1. Neuroscience

    Functional connectivity-based attractor dynamics of the human brain in rest, task, and disease

    Robert Englert, Balint Kincses ... Tamas Spisak
    Functional connectivity reveals brain attractors that match predictions of free‑energy‑minimizing attractor theory, yielding an interpretable generative model of brain dynamics in rest, task, and disease.
    1. Neuroscience

    Formation of task representations and replay in mouse medial prefrontal cortex

    Hamed Shabani, Hannah Muysers ... Christian Leibold
    Longitudinal calcium imaging in the medial prefrontal cortex reveals the emergence of de novo task representations and reward-associated replay.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Mycobacterial metallophosphatase MmpE acts as a nucleomodulin to regulate host gene expression and promote intracellular survival

    Liu Chen, Baojie Duan ... Aizhen Guo
    Mycobacterium tuberculosis utilizes nucleomodulins to disrupt host inflammatory responses and lysosomal maturation, uncovering a novel strategy for immune evasion and intracellular survival.