AmiGO 2: Term Details for "multivesicular body" (GO:0005771)

Accession: GO:0005771
Name: multivesicular body
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: MVB, MVE, multivesicular endosome
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A type of endosome in which regions of the limiting endosomal membrane invaginate to form internal vesicles; membrane proteins that enter the internal vesicles are sequestered from the cytoplasm. Source: PMID:11566881, PMID:16533950
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0005771 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to multivesicular body (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to multivesicular body (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for multivesicular body (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
multivesicular body	is_a	late endosome (GO:0005770)

subject	relation	object
multivesicular body lumen (GO:0097486)	BFO:0000050	multivesicular body
multivesicular body assembly (GO:0036258)	RO:0002588	multivesicular body
multivesicular body organization (GO:0036257)	RO:0002592	multivesicular body
multivesicular body membrane (GO:0032585)	RO:0002007	multivesicular body
multivesicular body, internal vesicle (GO:0097487)	BFO:0000050	multivesicular body