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About 60% of mucins and trans-sialidases in Trypanosoma cruzi segregate into ~100 nm nanoclusters that rarely contact each other, with nonrandom separation distances.
- Why it matters: Nanoscale membrane organization of these sialylation factors is unknown, limiting understanding of where sialylation occurs and how enzyme–substrate interactions are spatially arranged.
- What they did: Dual-color super-resolution microscopy quantified clustering and measured separation distances between mucins and TS, comparing clustered versus non-clustered fractions.
- The result: The remaining ~40% fraction shows shorter-than-random separation distances consistent with shared fibrillar-network ordering, and mucins form high molecular-weight complexes in DRDs while TS is excluded.
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