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SUBMITTER: Baccile N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5542763 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baccile Niki N Le Griel Patrick P Prévost Sylvain S Everaert Bernd B Van Bogaert Inge N A INA Roelants Sophie S Soetaert Wim W
ChemistryOpen 20170712 4
Vesicle-in-vesicle self-assembled containers, or vesosomes, are promising alternatives to liposomes because of their possible hierarchical encapsulation and high stability. We report herein the first example of sugar-based vesicles-in-vesicles, which we baptize glucosomes. These were prepared by using a natural microbial glycolipid (branched C22 sophorolipid) extracted from the culture medium of the yeast <i>Pseudohyphozyma bogoriensis</i>. Glucosomes spontaneously formed in water between pH 6 a ...[more]