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The lipid bilayer surrounding any membrane-bounded vesicle in the cell. Organized structure of distinctive morphology and function. Includes the nucleus, mitochondria, plastids, vacuoles, vesicles, ribosomes and the cytoskeleton, and prokaryotic structures such as anammoxosomes and pirellulosomes. Excludes the plasma membrane. Any small, fluid-filled, spherical organelle enclosed by a lipid bilayer. A membrane-bounded vesicle found in the cytoplasm of the cell. The volume enclosed by the membrane or protein that forms a vesicle. Any small, fluid-filled, spherical organelle enclosed by membrane or protein. A membrane-bounded vesicle that is released into the extracellular region by fusion of the limiting endosomal membrane of a multivesicular body with the plasma membrane. A specialized vacuole of eukaryotic cells, especially Protozoa, that fills with water from the cytoplasm and then discharges this externally by the opening of contractile vacuole pores. Its function is probably osmoregulatory.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: membrane-bounded vesicle
Acc: GO:0031988
Aspect: Cellular Component
Desc: Any small, fluid-filled, spherical organelle enclosed by a lipid bilayer.
Synonyms:
  • membrane-enclosed vesicle
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 38 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 2013 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0031988 - membrane-bounded vesicle (interactive image map)
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