Abstract

Mitophagy is a mitochondrial quality control mechanism where damaged and surplus mitochondria are degraded by macroautophagy. Mitophagy is associated with various physiological and pathological events such as mitochondrial clearance during the terminal differentiation of reticulocytes. There are two different mammalian autophagy pathways: the Atg5-dependent conventional pathway and Atg5-independent alternative pathway; the latter is involved in reticulocyte's mitophagy.

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