Redeployment of Archaeal ESCRT Systems Reveals Conserved Mechanisms Underlying Eukaryotic Complexity
Kishore Babu Naripogu, Yee Han Tee, Yosuke Senju, Haokun Li, Alexander D. Bershadsky, Tomoyuki Honda, Robert Charles Robinson
This study shows that archaeal ESCRT modules integrate into eukaryotic structures, supporting a model of eukaryogenesis through redeployment of ancestral membrane-remodeling systems.
bioRxiv · Nov 1, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology