“…For example, the quality of mitochondria in HSCs is regulated by fission/fusion and mitophagy-mediated mitochondrial quality control systems which segregate and remove the damaged mitochondria using lysosomal degradation [ 57 , 140 , 141 ]. However, if the damaged mitochondria cannot be fully removed, then HSCs will distribute the damaged mitochondria to one of the mitotic daughters in order to assure that the healthy mitochondria present in the other daughter cell will preserve the number and function of HSCs [ 98 , 101 , 102 ]. In addition, the signaling pathways which mediate nuclear-mitochondrial communication, including NAD + -Sirt1-HIF-1α, Sirt7-NRF1 and Foxo/Sirt3-antioxidants (such as SOD2), also play critical roles in maintaining the low metabolic and inactive states of mitochondria by regulating redox reactions and the mitochondrial unfolding protein response (UPR) [ 124 , 126 , 129 – 131 , 142 , 143 ].…”