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. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    My Tran, Angel J Hernandez Viera ... Charlie Y Mo
    In methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, evolution of bacteriophage resistance causes trade-offs that re-sensitize the bacteriato β-lactam antibiotics.
    1. Developmental Biology

    NR2F2 is required in the embryonic testis for fetal Leydig cell development

    Aitana Perea-Gomez, Natividad Bellido Carreras ... Marie-Christine Chaboissier
    NR2F2 regulates fetal Leydig cell differentiation and steroidogenesis in mouse testes, providing mechanistic insight into testis development and the etiology of 46,XY differences in sex development.
    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    CRISPR-edited DPSCs constitutively expressing BDNF enhance dentin regeneration in injured teeth

    Ji Hyun Kim, Muhammad Irfan ... Seung Chung
    Brain-derived neurotrophic factor/tropomyosin receptor kinase B signaling in promoting the differentiation and dentin-repair capacity of dental stem cells under inflammatory conditions offers a potential clinical strategy for repairing damaged teeth.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Prebiotic gas flow environment enables isothermal nucleic acid replication

    Philipp Schwintek, Emre Eren ... Dieter Braun
    Exponential nucleic acid replication can occur isothermally in a prebiotically plausible setting that accumulates and simultaneously separates the strands of nucleic acids through evaporation-driven flows at the gas–water interface.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Fast evolution of SOS-independent multi-drug resistance in bacteria

    Le Zhang, Yunpeng Guan ... Dayong Jin
    A single β-lactam exposure rapidly drives stable multidrug resistance in RecA-deficient bacteria through an SOS-independent mechanism involving oxidative stress-induced mutagenesis and antibiotic-driven selection.
    1. Neuroscience

    A temporally restricted function of the dopamine receptor Dop1R2 during memory formation

    Jenifer C Kaldun, Emanuele Calia ... Simon G Sprecher
    The dopamine receptor Dop1R2 plays a crucial role in the formation of longer-lasting memories, while it is dispensable for short-term memories.
    1. Neuroscience

    Molecular characterization of gustatory second-order neurons reveals integrative mechanisms of gustatory and metabolic information

    Rubén Mollá-Albaladejo, Manuel Jiménez-Caballero, Juan Antonio Sanchez-Alcaniz
    Leucokinin neurons integrate sweet and bitter taste inputs with starvation signals to regulate feeding initiation, balancing nutrient intake against the risk of toxin ingestion.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Function and firing of the Streptomyces coelicolor contractile injection system requires the membrane protein CisA

    Bastien Casu, Joseph W Sallmen ... Susan Schlimpert
    CryoEM, genetic, and cell biological analyses reveal that the conserved membrane protein CisA mediates membrane recruitment of contractile injection systems Streptomyces coelicolor, enabling their activation under stress.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    β-Glucan reprograms alveolar macrophages via neutrophil/IFNγ axis in a murine model of lung injury

    Renaud Prevel, Erwan Pernet ... Maziar Divangahi
    β-Glucan-mediated trained immunity activates alveolar macrophages which exacerbates acute lung injury induced by LPS.