Notably, our results also show that by blocking mitophagy by knocking down the autophagic protein ATG7, the effect of NJXA on inhibiting cell proliferation could not be completely eliminated, suggesting that NJXA inhibited cervical cancer cell proliferation in a multiple-target manner, and that the induction of mitophagy is only one of the mechanisms by which NJXA works. The gene discussed is ATG7; the disease is cervical cancer.