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. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Dynamic chromatin architecture identifies new autoimmune-associated enhancers for IL2 and novel genes regulating CD4+ T cell activation

    Matthew C Pahl, Prabhat Sharma ... Andrew D Wells
    The three-dimensional architecture of the genome in distinct cell types predicts genes and regulatory elements involved in cell function and disease.
    1. Cancer Biology

    PITAR, a DNA damage-inducible cancer/testis long noncoding RNA, inactivates p53 by binding and stabilizing TRIM28 mRNA

    Samarjit Jana, Mainak Mondal ... Kumaravel Somasundaram
    PITAR interaction with TRIM28 mRNA, which encodes a p53 targeting E3 ubiquitin ligase, keeps p53 levels low for cancer cells to divide and attenuates the DNA damage response by p53.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Tumor-infiltrating nerves functionally alter brain circuits and modulate behavior in a mouse model of head-and-neck cancer

    Jeffrey Barr, Austin Walz ... Paola D Vermeer
    Nerve tracing and behavioral studies in tumor-bearing mice together with transcriptional and functional analysis reveal cancer-induced central and peripheral neuronal alterations that influence behavior.
    1. Neuroscience

    Sensitivity to vocal emotions emerges in newborns at 37 weeks gestational age

    Xinlin Hou, Peng Zhang ... Dandan Zhang
    Analysis of neonatal response reveals that at 37 weeks gestational age, infants exhibit a marked developmental shift in their ability to perceive emotional vocal prosody, highlighting a critical period for social emotional development with potential implications for early neurodevelopmental assessments.
    1. Medicine

    Nuclear magnetic resonance-based metabolomics with machine learning for predicting progression from prediabetes to diabetes

    Jiang Li, Yuefeng Yu ... Bin Wang
    Lipoprotein particle size and composition, fatty acids, and amino acids were associated with the risk of incident diabetes, and adding the selected metabolites could significantly improve the risk prediction of progression from prediabetes to diabetes beyond the conventional clinical variables.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Two-way Dispatched function in Sonic hedgehog shedding and transfer to high-density lipoproteins

    Kristina Ehring, Sophia Friederike Ehlers ... Kay Grobe
    A composite hedgehog release model that incorporates and supports a previously disparate set of observations has been presented.
    1. Neuroscience

    Mechanism of barotaxis in marine zooplankton

    Luis Alberto Bezares Calderón, Réza Shahidi, Gáspár Jékely
    Ciliated zooplankton larvae sense pressure by ciliary photoreceptor cells, which increase the beating of locomotor cilia via a serotonergic motor circuit leading to rapid upward swimming during barotaxis.
    1. Neuroscience

    Laminar specificity and coverage of viral-mediated gene expression restricted to GABAergic interneurons and their parvalbumin subclass in marmoset primary visual cortex

    Frederick Federer, Justin Balsor ... Alessandra Angelucci
    The gene-regulatory enhancers h56D and S5E2 restrict transgene expression to GABAergic and parvalbumin-positive interneurons, respectively, across marmoset cortical layers, thus representing a promising tool for circuit dissection in non-human primates.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Mutant mice lacking alternatively spliced p53 isoforms unveil Ackr4 as a male-specific prognostic factor in Myc-driven B-cell lymphomas

    Anne Fajac, Iva Simeonova ... Franck Toledo
    The male-specific tumor-suppressive effects of minor p53 isoforms were correlated with higher Ackr4 expression levels, which have implications for sex-specific cancer prognosis in humans.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Arpin deficiency increases actomyosin contractility and vascular permeability

    Armando Montoya-Garcia, Idaira M Guerrero-Fonseca ... Michael Schnoor
    Arpin regulates actomyosin contractility and endothelial barrier integrity by controlling the activity of the kinases ROCK1 and ZIPK, but not Arp2/3.