Term Information

Accession
GO:0036258
Name
multivesicular body assembly
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
MVB biogenesis, MVB formation, multivesicular body biogenesis
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The aggregation, arrangement and bonding together of a set of components to form a multivesicular body, a type of late 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: GOC:sart, PMID:19571114, PMID:11566881
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History
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Subset
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Parents of multivesicular body assembly (GO:0036258)
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multivesicular body assembly [is_a relation] is_a  organelle assembly (GO:0070925)
multivesicular body assembly [is_a relation] is_a  multivesicular body organization (GO:0036257)

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