Abstract
The Human mitochondrial Hsp70 (mtHsp70, also known as mortalin) is involved in a range of cellular processes, where it has paradox roles: while it helps keeping cellular homeostasis, its malfunction is involved in degenerative disorders. In the mitochondrion matrix, mortalin acts in the process of protein importation from cytoplasm; in the cytoplasm, it may works as a p53 scavenger, there…