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. Neuroscience

    Glutamate receptor composition at Drosophila neuromuscular junctions depends on developmental stage and muscle identity

    Anne Sustar, Chengjie Qiu ... John C Tuthill
    Diverse combinations of glutamate receptor subunits are expressed across developmental stages and even between adjacent muscles in adult Drosophila.
    1. Neuroscience

    Oxytocin neurons signal state-dependent transitions from rest to thermogenesis and behavioral arousal

    Morgane Vandendoren, Jason G Landen ... Adam Nelson
    Oxytocin neurons couple physiological warming to behavioral arousal, revealing a homeostatic mechanism that coordinates transitions between low- and high-energy states.
    1. Neuroscience

    Compensation of hyperexcitability with simulation-based inference

    Daniel Müller-Komorowska, Tomoki Fukai
    Simulation-based inference predicts putative circuit mechanisms of hyperexcitability in a phenomenological microcircuit simulator with more than 30 free intrinsic and synaptic parameters.
    1. Cell Biology

    SVEP1 enables efficient binding of angiopoietin-2 to the TIE1 receptor, allowing receptor phosphorylation and downstream signaling

    Katharina Uphoff, Melina Hußmann ... Dörte Schulte-Ostermann
    The interaction of important signaling pathway members identified through in silico and in vitro approaches provides a model that suggests local receptor multimerization through bridging functions of various ligands.
    1. Neuroscience

    Distinct gradients of cortical architecture capture visual representations and behavior across the lifespan

    Xiayu Chen, Xingyu Liu ... Jesse Gomez
    A large-scale convergence gradient and a fine-scale divergence gradient in cortical architecture capture visual hierarchy, areal boundaries, and behavior, uncovering an undescribed retinotopic representation in anterior temporal cortex.
    1. Neuroscience

    Whole-brain mapping of spinal-projecting neurons in larval zebrafish

    Martin Carbo-Tano, Kevin Fidelin ... Claire Wyart
    The supraspinal system of larval zebrafish has been described, uncovering spinal projections from the telencephalon, mesencephalon, and rhombencephalon, as well as numerous motor and neuromodulatory nuclei conserved with mammals.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Lateral opening site of human oligopeptide transporter 2 plays a key role in the interaction with polymyxins

    Xukai Jiang, Yining Luo ... Jian Li
    Mapping the molecular interactions between polymyxins and hPepT2 enables rational design of safer lipopeptide antibiotics with reduced renal toxicity while retaining antibacterial activity.
    1. Neuroscience

    Revealing the benefit of eye motion for acuity under emulated cone loss

    Hannah K Doyle, James Fong ... Austin Roorda
    In the presence of emulated cone loss, eye movements are used to gather and integrate information, leading to improved letter acuity compared to a non-moving condition.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Molecular and functional analysis of calcium binding by a cancer-linked calreticulin mutant

    Ishmael Nii Ayibontey Tagoe, Amanpreet Kaur ... Malini Raghavan
    Endoplasmic reticulum and cytosolic calcium levels, and store-operated calcium entry, are comparable in calreticulin-deficient cells rescued with either wild-type calreticulin or the myeloproliferative neoplasm-linked Del52 mutant.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Synthetic auxotrophy reveals metabolic regulation of plasma cell generation, affinity maturation, and cytokine receptor signaling

    Sung Hoon Cho, Shawna K Brookens ... Mark R Boothby
    Genetic and biochemical analyses reveal a way to overcome the metabolic flexibility of B cells and undermine their cytokine receptor signaling and differentiation into antibody-secreting cells, therapeutic targets in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).