Formation of giant vesicles from diacylmannosylerythritols, and their binding to concanavalin AElectronic supplementary information (ESI): preparation, optical micro-scopy details and NMR data for MELs. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b0/b000968g/
Abstract
The structures of diacylmannosylerythritols, MEL-A, -B and -C, are determined; these microbial glycolipid biosurfactants efficiently self-assemble in water to form giant vesicles, which show excellent binding affinity towards the mannose-binding protein, concanavalin A.