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Our study hopes to advance our understanding of disease progression, the spread frequency of the bacteria in people, and the interactions between the bacteria and human body by identifying a functional protein, potentially serving as a target for meningococcal medicine in the future.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A hypothetical protein HP (PBJ89160.1) from N.\u2009 meningitidis was employed in this study for extensive structural and functional characterization. In the predictive functional role of HP, several constitutive bioinformatics approaches are applied, such as prediction of physiological properties, domain and motif family function, secondary and tertiary structure prediction, energy minimization, quality validation, docking, and ADMET analysis. To create the protein\u2019s three-dimensional (3D) structure, a template protein (PDB_ID: 3GXA) is used with 99% sequence identity by homology modeling technique with the HHpred server. To mitigate the pathogenicity associated with the HP function, it was docked with the natural ligand methionine and five other drug compounds like Verapamil, Loperamide, Thioridazine, Chlorpromazine, and Auranofine.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The protein is predicted to be acidic, soluble and hydrophilic by physicochemical properties analysis. Subcellular localization analysis demonstrated the protein to be periplasmic. The HP has an ATP-binding cassette transporter (also known as ABC transporter) involved in uptake of methionine (MetQ) that creates nutritional virulence in host. Energy minimization, multiple quality assessments, and validation value determination led to the conclusion that the HP model had a workable and acceptable quality. 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