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Diverse ancestral myosin motors generate and segregate distinct types of nanocluster-rich domains at the plasma membrane.

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Authors: Parijat Sil1, Thomas S van Zanten1,2, Sowmya Jahnavi1,3, Ajay Bansal4, Hafez Razmazma3,5, Suvrajit Saha1, Bhagyashri Mahajan1,3,6, Mukesh Kumar7, Phillip J Stansfeld3,5, Parvinder Pal Singh7, Madan Rao4, Satyajit Mayor1,3
  1. National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
  2. Fundación Agencia Aragonesa para la Investigación y el Desarrollo (ARAID), Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA), CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza and CIBER-BBN, Zaragoza, Spain
  3. Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
  4. Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
  5. School of Life Sciences and Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
  6. Trans-disciplinary University, Bangalore, India
  7. CSIR–Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu, India
Journal: Science advances, volume 12, issue 37, article eaeb8889
Dates: received 12 September 2025; accepted 4 August 2026; published online 11 September 2026; in print September 2026
Type: Research article · Language: English
License: CC BY
Identifiers: DOI 10.1126/sciadv.aeb8889 · PMID 42726867 · PMCID PMC13564907 · OpenAlex W7212262442
Open access: gold, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Categories: cellular / molecular (subfield)
Methods: Statistics, Evoked potentials, Connectivity, fMRI & imaging
MeSH: Cell Membrane*, Membrane Microdomains*, Myosins*, Actin Cytoskeleton, Animals (* major topic)
Topic: Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology), according to OpenAlex
Funding: Wellcome Trust
Citations: not cited yet (Europe PMC); 72 references in the paper

Abstract

Molecular organization of the plasma membrane at nano- and micrometer scales is critical for its function in all living cells. This emerges not only from the self-assembly of lipids and proteins but also from active forces originating in the underlying cytoskeletal cortex. These forces drive membrane molecules into nonequilibrium steady-state patterns such as nanoclusters. However, the molecular agents connecting membrane organization with cytoskeletal dynamics and stresses have remained unknown. Here, we show that two classes of ubiquitous ancestral nonmuscle myosins are deployed for the organization of different types of membrane components. Inner leaflet–localized class I myosins link outerleaflet glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored molecules to juxta-membrane actin filaments, whereas the more cortically localized Class II myosins operate on transmembrane proteins endowed with actin-binding capacity. Consistent with an active Flory-Huggins theory for phase separation, these observations show that the distinct motor-driven membrane molecules generate spatially segregated mesoscale domains, enriched in nanoclusters derived from different myosin classes. Moreover, chemically reversible posttranslational modifications such as palmitoylation enable concatenation of these domains by enhancing the affinity of the membrane domain constituents for each other. We anticipate that the segregation potential of the adenosine 5′-triphosphate (ATP)–fueled cell membrane is made available for the crucial purpose of modulating information transduction because it can be regulated in space and time during the construction of signaling cascades, underpinning functional plasma membrane organization.

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Sil, P., van Zanten, T. S., Jahnavi, S., Bansal, A., Razmazma, H., Saha, S., Mahajan, B., Kumar, M., Stansfeld, P. J., Singh, P. P., Rao, M., & Mayor, S. (2026). Diverse ancestral myosin motors generate and segregate distinct types of nanocluster-rich domains at the plasma membrane. Science advances, 12(37), eaeb8889. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeb8889

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@article{sil2026diverse,
author = {Sil, Parijat and van Zanten, Thomas S and Jahnavi, Sowmya and Bansal, Ajay and Razmazma, Hafez and Saha, Suvrajit and Mahajan, Bhagyashri and Kumar, Mukesh and Stansfeld, Phillip J and Singh, Parvinder Pal and Rao, Madan and Mayor, Satyajit},
title = {{Diverse ancestral myosin motors generate and segregate distinct types of nanocluster-rich domains at the plasma membrane}},
journal = {Science advances},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
volume = {12},
number = {37},
pages = {eaeb8889},
publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science},
issn = {2375-2548},
doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aeb8889},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeb8889},
pmid = {42726867},
pmcid = {PMC13564907}
}

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AU - Bansal, Ajay
AU - Razmazma, Hafez
AU - Saha, Suvrajit
AU - Mahajan, Bhagyashri
AU - Kumar, Mukesh
AU - Stansfeld, Phillip J
AU - Singh, Parvinder Pal
AU - Rao, Madan
AU - Mayor, Satyajit
TI - Diverse ancestral myosin motors generate and segregate distinct types of nanocluster-rich domains at the plasma membrane
T2 - Science advances
J2 - Sci Adv
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DA - 2026/09/11
VL - 12
IS - 37
SP - eaeb8889
SN - 2375-2548
PB - American Association for the Advancement of Science
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.aeb8889
UR - https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeb8889
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