mitophagy

I. Literature review

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Namemitophagy
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Biological process

Exact synonym

macromitophagy

Description

The selective autophagy process in which a mitochondrion is degraded by macroautophagy.

Comment

Note that this terms refers to the macroautophagy process and is named by common usage. Be aware that there are a separate micromitophagy and mitophagy by induced vacuole formation processes.

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