Thus it plays vital role in detoxifying toxic metals/metalloids and xenobiotics (Srivalli and Khanna-Chopra 2008)
You probably know at least one person who has healed from a surgery or a beat-up shoulder and has magically rebounded
Jimenez Trinidad FR, Arrieta Ruiz M, Solanes Batllo N, Vea Badenes A, Bobi Gibert J, Valera Canellas A, Roque Moreno M, Freixa Rofastes X, Sabate Tenas M, Dantas AP, Tura-Ceide O, Rigol Muxart M (2021) Linking in vitro models of endothelial dysfunction with cell senescence
In yeast, Ohsumis and Klionskys laboratories first identified that ATG32 acts as the mitophagy-specific receptor, which directly interacts with the selective autophagy adaptor ATG8 via an ATG8-interacting motif (AIM) and ATG11 to form the nascent autophagosome (Kanki et al., 2009