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Mediators of mitophagy that regulate mitochondrial quality control play crucial role in diverse pathophysiology

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Mitochondria are double membrane–bound cellular work-horses constantly functioning to regulate vital aspects of cellular metabolism, bioenergetics, proliferation and death. Biogenesis, homeostasis and regulated turnover of mitochondria are stringently regulated to meet the bioenergetic requirements. Diverse external and internal stimuli including oxidative stress, diseases, xenobiotics and even age profoundly affect mitochondrial integrity. Damaged mitochondria need immediate segregation and selective culling to maintain physiological homeostasis. Mitophagy is a specialised form of macroautophagy that constantly checks mitochondrial quality followed by elimination of rogue mitochondria by lysosomal targeting through multiple pathways tightly regulated and activated in context-specific manners. Mitophagy is implicated in diverse oxidative stress–associated metabolic, proliferating and degenerative disorders owing to the centrality of mitopathology in diseases as well as the common mandate to eliminate damaged mitochondria for restoring physiological homeostasis. With improved health care and growing demand for precision medicine, specifically targeting the keystone factors in pathogenesis, more exploratory studies are focused on mitochondrial quality control as underlying guardian of cellular pathophysiology. In this context, mitophagy emerged as a promising area to focus biomedical research for identifying novel therapeutic targets against diseases linked with physiological redox perturbation. The present review provides a comprehensive account of the recent developments on mitophagy along with precise discussion on its impact on major diseases and possibilities of therapeutic modulation.

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Science and Engineering Research Board, Dept. of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India through J.C. Bose National Fellowship (Grant No: SB/S2/JCB-54/2014).

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Rudranil De: conceptualisation, literature search, original draft writing and editing. Somnath Mazumder: original draft writing and editing. Uday Bandyopadhyay: conceptualisation, original draft writing and editing, supervision, funding acquisition.

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De, R., Mazumder, S. & Bandyopadhyay, U. Mediators of mitophagy that regulate mitochondrial quality control play crucial role in diverse pathophysiology. Cell Biol Toxicol 37, 333–366 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10565-020-09561-1

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