monolayer-surrounded lipid storage body
A subcellular organelle of plant cells surrounded by 'half-unit' or a monolayer membrane instead of the more usual bilayer. The storage body has a droplet of triglyceride surrounded by a monolayer of phospholipids, interacting with the triglycerides and the hydrophilic head groups facing the cytosol, and containing major protein components called oleosins.
GO:0005811
lipid droplet
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oil body
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oilbody
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oleosome
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spherosome
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