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Comparative structural analysis of two proteins belonging to quorum sensing system in Vibrio cholerae
Mobashar Hussain Urf Turabe Fazil1, Sunil Kumar, Naidu Subba Rao
1Infectious Disease Biology, Institute of Life Sciences, Nalco Square, Bhubaneswar 751023, India.
Abstract:
Vibrio cholerae uses quorum sensing communication system to interact with other bacteria and for gauzing environmental parameters. This organism dwells equally well in both human host and aquatic environments. Quorum sensing regulates multitude of activities and is one of the lucrative targets presently pursued for drug design in bacteria to encounter virulence. Histidine phosphotransfer protein LuxU and response regulator LuxO of V. cholerae are known to play important roles in biofilms and virulence machinery. In the present study, we used computational methods to model LuxU and LuxO and simulated the interactions of LuxO and LuxU. Since no structural details of the proteins were available, we employed homology modeling to construct the three-dimensional structures and then performed molecular dynamics simulations to study dynamic behavior of the LuxO and LuxU from V. cholerae. The modeled proteins were validated and subjected to molecular docking analyses. This allowed us to predict the binding modes of the proteins to elucidate probable sites of interference.
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