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. Developmental Biology

    OVO positively regulates essential maternal pathways by binding near the transcriptional start sites in the Drosophila female germline

    Leif Benner, Savannah Muron ... Brian Oliver
    Many well-studied maternal developmental pathways that are required for embryonic development in Drosophila are regulated by the transcription factor OVO in the Drosophila female germline.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    The common Sting1 HAQ, AQ alleles rescue CD4 T cellpenia, restore T-regs, and prevent SAVI (N153S) inflammatory disease in mice

    Alexandra a Aybar-Torres, Lennon A Saldarriaga ... Lei Jin
    The common human HAQ,AQ alleles suppress STING1 gain-of-function mutation-induced chronic STING1 inflammation in mice.
    1. Neuroscience

    Ca2+ channel and active zone protein abundance intersects with input-specific synapse organization to shape functional synaptic diversity

    Audrey T Medeiros, Scott J Gratz ... Kate M O'Connor-Giles
    In vivo analysis of endogenously tagged Ca2+ channel subunits reveals unexpected differences in subunit composition and synapse-specific relationships between channel abundance and synaptic strength.
    1. Ecology

    Does bumblebee preference of continuous over interrupted strings in string-pulling tasks indicate means-end comprehension?

    Chao Wen, Yuyi Lu ... Lars Chittka
    Behavioral studies reveal that bumblebees distinguish between continuous and interrupted strings by using a combination of image matching and associative learning.
    1. Neuroscience

    DNL343 is an investigational CNS penetrant eukaryotic initiation factor 2B activator that prevents and reverses the effects of neurodegeneration caused by the integrated stress response

    Ernie Yulyaningsih, Jung H Suh ... Pascal E Sanchez
    DNL343, a brain-penetrant integrated stress response inhibitor, reduces neurodegeneration in mouse models and identifies biomarker candidates for assessing treatment responses in clinical settings.
    1. Neuroscience

    Bidirectional dysregulation of synaptic glutamate signaling after transient metabolic failure

    Stefan Passlick, Ghanim Ullah, Christian Henneberger
    Synaptic glutamate release is potentiated by short metabolic failure whereas longer durations of energy depletion lead to a postsynaptic failure of synaptic transmission.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cell-type-specific origins of locomotor rhythmicity at different speeds in larval zebrafish

    Moneeza A Agha, Sandeep Kishore, David L McLean
    Unexpected complexity in the synaptic basis of locomotor rhythmogenesis is linked to cell type and speed in larval zebrafish.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Structure and evolution of alanine/serine decarboxylases and the engineering of theanine production

    Hao Wang, Biying Zhu ... Zhaoliang Zhang
    Comparative structural analysis and biochemical characterization unraveled the mechanisms behind enzymatic substrate selectivity, leading to an amplified theanine yield through active mutant protein screening, thus refining strategies for theanine production.
    1. Neuroscience

    Vglut2-based glutamatergic signaling in central noradrenergic neurons is dispensable for normal breathing and chemosensory reflexes

    Yuan Chang, Savannah Lusk ... Russell S Ray
    Vglut2-based glutamatergic signaling in central noradrenergic neurons is dispensable for baseline breathing and hypercapnic, hypoxic chemosensory reflexes, which challenges the current understanding of central noradrenergic neurons in breathing control.
    1. Plant Biology

    OsNF-YB7 inactivates OsGLK1 to inhibit chlorophyll biosynthesis in rice embryo

    Zongju Yang, Tianqi Bai ... Chen Chen
    OsNF-YB7, an ortholog of Arabidopsis LEC1, is a negative regulator of Chl biosynthesis in rice embryos by interacting with OsGLK1 to inhibit the transactivity of OsGLK1.