Volume 27, No 3, Mar 2017

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 27 Issue 3, March 2017: 311-312

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

PHB2/prohibitin 2: An inner membrane mitophagy receptor

Vikramjit Lahiri¹ and Daniel J Klionsky¹

¹Life Sciences Institute and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Correspondence: Daniel J Klionsky,(klionsky@umich.edu)

Mitophagy, the selective autophagic elimination of mitochondria, is a conserved cellular process critical for maintaining normal cellular physiology, and defects in this process are associated with certain pathophysiologies. In a recently published paper, Wei et al. describe their discovery of a hitherto unexplored mechanism of marking mitochondria for degradation.

10.1038/cr.2017.23

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