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multivesicular body (GO:0005771)

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.

Related

multivesicular body pathway (MVB pathway)

General

late endosome (GO:0005770)

References

gene ontology: GO:0005771 PMID: 11566881