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In this study, proteome based mapping was utilized to find out the potential drug targets for<jats:italic>S<\/jats:italic>.<jats:italic>maltophilia<\/jats:italic>strain k279a. Various tools of computational biology were applied to remove the human-specific homologous and pathogen-specific paralogous sequences from the bacterial proteome. The CD-HIT analysis selected 4315 proteins from total proteome count of 4365 proteins. Geptop identified 407 essential proteins, while the BlastP revealed approximately 85 non-homologous proteins in the human genome. Moreover, metabolic pathway and subcellular location analysis were performed for essential bacterial genes, to describe their role in various cellular processes. Only two essential proteins (Acyl-[acyl-carrier-protein]\u2014UDP-N acetyl glucosamine O-acyltransferase and D-alanine-D-alanine ligase) as candidate for potent targets were found in proteome of the pathogen, in order to design new drugs. An online tool, Swiss model was employed to model the 3D structures of both target proteins. A library of 5000 phytochemicals was docked against those proteins through the molecular operating environment (MOE). That resulted in to eight inhibitors for both proteins i.e. enterodiol, aloin, ononin and rhinacanthinF for the Acyl-[acyl-carrier-protein]\u2014UDP-N acetyl glucosamine O-acyltransferase, and rhazin, alkannin beta, aloesin and ancistrocladine for the D-alanine-D-alanine ligase. Finally the ADMET was done through ADMETsar. This study supported the development of natural as well as cost-effective drugs against<jats:italic>S<\/jats:italic>.<jats:italic>maltophilia<\/jats:italic>. These inhibitors displayed the effective binding interactions and safe drug profiles. However, further<jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>and<jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic>validation experiment might be performed to check their drug effectiveness, biocompatibility and their role as effective inhibitors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0261111","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,15]],"date-time":"2021-12-15T18:34:07Z","timestamp":1639593247000},"page":"e0261111","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Subtractive genomics and molecular docking approach to identify drug targets against Stenotrophomonas maltophilia"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Hira","family":"Saleem","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Usman Ali","family":"Ashfaq","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Habibullah","family":"Nadeem","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Muhammad","family":"Zubair","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Muhammad Hussnain","family":"Siddique","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9923-6595","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Ijaz","family":"Rasul","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"340","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,15]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"pone.0261111.ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2","DOI":"10.1128\/CMR.00019-11","article-title":"Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: an emerging global opportunistic pathogen","volume":"25","author":"J.S. 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