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. Immunology and Inflammation

    Early acquisition of S-specific Tfh clonotypes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination is associated with the longevity of anti-S antibodies

    Xiuyuan Lu, Hiroki Hayashi ... Sho Yamasaki
    Clonotypic tracing of SARS-CoV-2–responsive T cells reveals vaccination-induced dominant Tfh clonotypes, not pre-existing T cells, associated with sustained humoral response, and can serve as an index of antigen-specific antibody longevity.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Heritable epigenetic changes are constrained by the dynamics of regulatory architectures

    Antony M Jose
    A foundation for analyzing epigenetic changes within the context of regulatory architectures that enable heredity.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Ecology

    Collaborative hunting in artificial agents with deep reinforcement learning

    Kazushi Tsutsui, Ryoya Tanaka ... Keisuke Fujii
    Collaborative hunting, characterized by the division of roles among predators, has emerged within a group of artificial agents through deep reinforcement learning.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Uncharacterized yeast gene YBR238C, an effector of TORC1 signaling in a mitochondrial feedback loop, accelerates cellular aging via HAP4- and RMD9-dependent mechanisms

    Mohammad Alfatah, Jolyn Jia Jia Lim ... Frank Eisenhaber
    Revealing YBR238C's involvement in the TORC1–mitochondria feedback loop deepens our understanding of aging biology, emphasizing the TOMITO concept as a crucial mechanism in cellular aging regulation.
    1. Neuroscience

    A stochastic world model on gravity for stability inference

    Taicheng Huang, Jia Liu
    Empirical experiments and computational modeling reveal a stochastic world model on gravity for stability inference that represents gravity’s vertical direction as a Gaussian distribution.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    CYRI-B mediated macropinocytosis drives metastasis via lysophosphatidic acid receptor uptake

    Savvas Nikolaou, Amelie Juin ... Laura M Machesky
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Molecular dissection of PI3Kβ synergistic activation by receptor tyrosine kinases, GβGγ, and Rho-family GTPases

    Benjamin R Duewell, Naomi E Wilson ... Scott D Hansen
    Single molecule reconstitution of PI3Kβ synergistic activation reveals mechanism for rapid PI(3,4,5)P3 production during immune cell signaling.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Some mechanistic underpinnings of molecular adaptations of SARS-COV-2 spike protein by integrating candidate adaptive polymorphisms with protein dynamics

    Nicholas James Ose, Paul Campitelli ... Sefika Banu Ozkan
    Insights from integrating evolutionary predictions and protein dynamics unveil how specific mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein epistatically interact in order to influence spike protein interaction with human cells, potentially altering the virus's infectivity and immune evasion capabilities.
    1. Neuroscience

    A dynamic neural resource model bridges sensory and working memory

    Ivan Tomić, Paul M Bays
    Psychophysical measurement and computational modeling show that sensory information cannot contribute directly to a cognitive judgment, but must first be integrated into resource-limited working memory.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Metabolic and neurobehavioral disturbances induced by purine recycling deficiency in Drosophila

    Céline Petitgas, Laurent Seugnet ... Serge Birman
    Purine recycling deficiency triggers metabolic and neurological defects reminiscent of Lesch–Nyhan disease in Drosophila, paving the way for studying this disorder and carrying out drug screening in an invertebrate organism.