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CONCLUSIONS<br />

Chapter IV ‐ Binding <strong>of</strong> a Quinolone Antibiotic to Bacterial<br />

Porin OmpF.<br />

In this case, the FRET analysis allowed us to conclude on a likely location for the<br />

binding site <strong>of</strong> CP in OmpF. Two limiting positions for the binding site were<br />

considered: i) in the trimer interface, leading to a maximum efficiency <strong>of</strong> donor<br />

quenching; ii) in the periphery <strong>of</strong> the trimer, causing minimum quenching <strong>of</strong> donor<br />

fluorescence due to FRET. For each <strong>of</strong> these two limiting conditions, intervals for<br />

binding constants were retrieved. By comparison <strong>of</strong> the binding constants retrieved <strong>with</strong><br />

the results <strong>of</strong> an independent method that made use <strong>of</strong> changes in the absorption spectra<br />

<strong>of</strong> CP upon binding to OmpF (Neves et al., 2005), it is concluded that the binding site<br />

for CP is likely to be located away from the trimer interface and close to the periphery<br />

<strong>of</strong> OmpF.<br />

The FRET methodology developed for the analysis <strong>of</strong> the interactions between<br />

OmpF and CP is suitable to be used in the analysis <strong>of</strong> FRET data for similar systems,<br />

containing two populations <strong>of</strong> donors (or acceptors) separated by a distance larger or<br />

comparable to the Förster distance <strong>of</strong> the donor-acceptor pair used, so that the analysis<br />

is sensitive enough to be able to distinguish the contributions from these two<br />

populations.<br />

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