Selective autophagy

Autophagy can target specific cargo (such as organelles, proteins, microbes, RNA), using the core autophagic machinary as well as selectivity factors that tag the specific cargo for degradation, in most cases selective autophagy receptors.

Depicted the names usually used to refer to selective autophagy of mitochondria (mitophagy), peroxisomes (pexophagy), protein aggregates (aggrephagy), ribosomes (ribophagy), endoplasmic reticulum (reticulophagy), lipid droplets (lipophagy), pathogens (xenophagy) and centriolar satellies (doryphagy).