| TFAM | Mitochondrial transcription factor A |
| POLMRT | Mitochondrial RNA polymerase |
| TEFM | Mitochondrial transcription elongator factor |
| mTERF | Mitochondrial transcription termination factor |
| HSP | Heavy strand promoter |
| LSP | Light strand promoter |
| TAS | Termination associated sequence |
| CSB | Conserved sequence block |
| GQP | G-quadruplex structures |
| MOF | Males absent on the first |
| KAT | Lysine acetyl transferase |
| PNPase | Polynucleotide phosphorylase |
| STAT3 | Signal transducer and activator of transcriptional protein 3 |
| NRF | Nuclear respiratory factor |
| YY1 | Yin yang 1 |
| PGC1 | Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1 |
| PRC | PGC-1-related coactivator |
| mTOR | Mammalian target of rapamycin |
| NF-κB | Nuclear Factor Kappa B |
| HIF1α | Hypoxia inducible factor -1α |
| MRGs | Mitochondrial RNA granules |
| mt-SSU | Mitochondrial small subunit |
| mt-LSU | Mitochondrial large subunit |
| mtPAP | Mitochondrial poly-A polymerase |
| GRSF1 | G-rich sequence factor 1 |
| FASTK | FAS-activated serine/threonine kinase |
| NLR | Nucleotide-binding Leucine-rich Repeat family receptor |
| mtSSB | Mitochondrial Single-stranded DNA-binding protein |
| LRPPRC | Leucin-rich pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR)-containing |
| SLIRP | Stem-loop-interacting RNA binding protein |