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. Computational and Systems Biology

    Nonlinear transcriptional responses to gradual modulation of transcription factor dosage

    Júlia Domingo, Mariia Minaeva ... Tuuli Lappalainen
    A new CRISPR-based approach for tuning gene expression up and down allowed identification of how other genes' expression responds to changes of transcription factors.
    1. Neuroscience

    A unifying account of replay as context-driven memory reactivation

    Zhenglong Zhou, Michael J Kahana, Anna C Schapiro
    A context-driven memory model simulates a wide range of characteristics of waking and sleeping hippocampal replay, providing a new account of how and why replay occurs.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Insights from aquaporin structures into drug-resistant sleeping sickness

    Modestas Matusevicius, Robin A Corey ... Simone Weyand
    Cryo-EM structures of human aquaporin AQP2 bound to the anti-trypanosomal drugs pentamidine and melarsoprol identify the molecular mechanism for drug-resistant sleeping sickness.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Fish CDK2 recruits Dtx4 to degrade TBK1 through ubiquitination in the antiviral response

    Long-Feng Lu, Can Zhang ... Shun Li
    CDK2-mediated TBK1 degradation via Dtx4 represents a previously unrecognized regulatory mechanism that modulates antiviral immunity in fish.
    1. Cell Biology

    Secreted exosomes induce filopodia formation

    Caitlin McAtee, Mikin R Patel ... Alissa M Weaver
    Exosome-associated THSD7A is identified as a key trigger of filopodia formation in cancer cells and neurons, revealing a novel pathway with implications for metastasis, neuronal connectivity, and other filopodia-dependent processes.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    The RNA-binding protein HuR modulates the expression of the disease-linked CCL2 rs1024611G-rs13900T haplotype

    Feroz Akhtar, Joselin Hernandez Ruiz ... Srinivas Mummidi
    Bioinformatics, RNA-protein interactions, and HuR-based functional studies demonstrated that the rs13900T allele modulates CCL2 transcript levels, providing a functional link between the CCL2 rs1024611G-rs13900T haplotype and disease susceptibility/progression.
    1. Neuroscience

    Prefoldin 5 is a microtubule-associated protein that suppresses Tau aggregation and neurotoxicity

    Anjali Bisht, Srikanth Pippadpally ... Vimlesh Kumar
    Prefoldin 5 stabilises neuronal microtubules and suppresses Tau-mediated neurotoxicity, offering a potential therapeutic target for tauopathies.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    ATP burst is the dominant driver of antibiotic lethality in Mycobacterium smegmatis

    Tejan Lodhiya, Aseem Palande ... Raju Mukherjee
    Multiomics and biochemical studies reveal that excess ATP levels, and not ROS, is the dominant driver for antibiotic cidality in Mycobacterium smegmatis.
    1. Neuroscience

    Hypothalamic deiodinase type-3 establishes the period of circannual interval timing in mammals

    Calum Stewart, T Adam Liddle ... Tyler J Stevenson
    Transcriptomic and genomic mutations reveal the mechanistic basis of timing seasonal life history transitions.
    1. Neuroscience

    Between-species variation in neocortical sulcal anatomy of the carnivoran brain

    Magdalena Boch, Katrin Karadachka ... Rogier B Mars
    A large-scale investigation of carnivoran brain diversity, providing a unified description of folding patterns, their relationship to behaviour and ecology, and the foundation for future investigations of carnivoran neuroecology.