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. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The Arthropoda-specific Tramtrack group BTB protein domains use previously unknown interface to form hexamers

    Artem N Bonchuk, Konstantin I Balagurov ... Pavel G Georgiev
    The cryo-EM structure of the CG6765 BTB domain and solution scattering experiments revealed a unique three-dimer hexameric assembly for the arthropod Tramtrack group BTB domains.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cancer Biology

    The deubiquitinase Ubp3/Usp10 constrains glucose-mediated mitochondrial repression via phosphate budgeting

    Vineeth Vengayil, Shreyas Niphadkar ... Sunil Laxman
    A primary constraint for mitochondrial repression is access to cytosolic inorganic phosphate, which is determined by the glycolytic flux rate.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Muscle-resident mesenchymal progenitors sense and repair peripheral nerve injury via the GDNF-BDNF axis

    Kyusang Yoo, Young-Woo Jo ... Young-Yun Kong
    GDNF receptor-expressing mesenchymal progenitor subpopulation within skeletal muscle responds to peripheral nerve injury by sensing GDNF and secreting BDNF, thereby directly promoting nerve regeneration through facilitating remyelination by Schwann cells.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Antigenic drift and subtype interference shape A(H3N2) epidemic dynamics in the United States

    Amanda C Perofsky, John Huddleston ... Cécile Viboud
    Antigenic drift in influenza’s major surface proteins, hemagglutinin and neuraminidase, contributes to variability in epidemic magnitude across seasons but is less influential than subtype interference in shaping annual outbreaks.
    1. Neuroscience

    A neural network model of differentiation and integration of competing memories

    Victoria JH Ritvo, Alex Nguyen ... Kenneth A Norman
    A computational neural network model leverages a simple unsupervised learning principle to account for recent findings on when memories move apart (differentiate) or together (integrate) in the brain.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    The exchange dynamics of biomolecular condensates

    Yaojun Zhang, Andrew GT Pyo ... Ned S Wingreen
    Exchange of components between biomolecular condensates and the surrounding dilute phase can be limited by dense-phase mixing, dilute-phase influx, or by the slow incorporation of molecules through the condensate interface.
    1. Cell Biology

    A Ctnnb1 enhancer transcriptionally regulates Wnt signaling dosage to balance homeostasis and tumorigenesis of intestinal epithelia

    Xiaojiao Hua, Chen Zhao ... Yan Zhou
    An enhancer-dependent transcriptional machinery finely tunes the expression of Ctnnb1 in intestinal crypts, thereby balancing homeostasis and tumorigenesis of intestinal epithelia.
    1. Medicine

    Identification of pharmacological inducers of a reversible hypometabolic state for whole organ preservation

    Megan M Sperry, Berenice Charrez ... Donald E Ingber
    Repurposing of a drug designed for pain relief can quickly and reversibly slow biochemical and metabolic activities in cells and organs and could facilitate organ transplantation and prevent tissue injury.