Traversing DNA-Protein Interactions Between Mesophilic and Thermophilic Bacteria: Implications from Their Cold Shock Response. 2024

Alankar Roy, and Sujay Ray
Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Kolkata, India.

Cold shock proteins (CSPs) are small, acidic proteins which contain a conserved nucleic acid-binding domain. These perform mRNA translation acting as "RNA chaperones" when triggered by low temperatures initiating their cold shock response. CSP- RNA interactions have been predominantly studied. Our focus will be CSP-DNA interaction examination, to analyse the diverse interaction patterns such as electrostatic, hydrogen and hydrophobic bonding in both thermophilic and mesophilic bacteria. The differences in the molecular mechanism of these contrasting bacterial proteins are studied. Computational techniques such as modelling, energy refinement, simulation and docking were operated to obtain data for comparative analysis. The thermostability factors which stabilise a thermophilic bacterium and their effect on their molecular regulation is investigated. Conformational deviation, atomic residual fluctuations, binding affinity, Electrostatic energy and Solvent Accessibility energy were determined during stimulation along with their conformational study. The study revealed that mesophilic bacteria E. coli CSP have higher binding affinity to DNA than thermophilic G. stearothermophilus. This was further evident by low conformation deviation and atomic fluctuations during simulation.

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