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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Cancer Biol. 2019 Nov 7;66:3–11. doi: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2019.11.005

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

Mitophagy as an example of selective autophagy.

The key difference between nonselective and selective autophagy is the specificity of cargo; selective autophagy is highly specific for certain cellular components. This is a composite schematic illustrating some of the different receptors that are involved in various types of mitophagy.