Mitophagy is a quality-control process that selectively recognizes and removes damaged, dysfunctional, or physiologically designated mitochondria. Its core processes include damage sensing, selective labeling, autophagic membrane sequestration, and lysosomal degradation. The PINK1–Parkin ...
Autophagy is a cellular quality control system that delivers cytoplasmic components, damaged organelles, protein aggregates, or intracellular pathogens to lysosomes for degradation. Its core significance is not simply “increased degradation,” but rather the maintenance of cellular homeostasis ...