monolayer-surrounded lipid storage body

id: GO:0012511
name: monolayer-surrounded lipid storage body
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: 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.

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