“…It also regulates trafficking of many membrane proteins implicated in trans-membrane transport, such as receptors for low-density lipoprotein and transferrin, transporters for amino acids, uric acid, glutamate, glucose, phosphate and cholesterol, and water channels, to control nutrient supply and metabolite discharge (Takata et al, 2008;Gournas et al, 2010;Tachiyama et al, 2011;Koumanov et al, 2012;Sorrentino et al, 2013;Cardona-Lopez et al, 2015;Llinares et al, 2015). It can also regulate trafficking of immune molecules, such as macrophage colony stimulating factor-1, transforming growth factor, Toll/Toll-like and T-cell receptors, and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II antigen, to modulate innate and adaptive immunity (Lund and Delotto, 2011;ten Broeke et al, 2013;Lou et al, 2014;Balogh et al, 2015;Wi et al, 2016). Moreover, the MVB pathway can be merged with autophagy for degradation of damaged proteins or subcellular organelles to deal with various stresses (Muller et al, 2015).…”