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In addition, in Indian subcontinent, there is historical evidence of using plants for treating cholera. This study was designed to investigate the cholera toxin-inhibitory properties of phytochemicals sourced from Indian medicinal plants. For this, three reported genotypes of cholera toxin subunit B (ctxB) associated with 7PET\n                    <jats:italic>V. cholerae<\/jats:italic>\n                    O1 El Tor strains were used as targets in molecular docking. Analysis results showed strong binding affinities (\u2264\u22127.5 kcal\/mol) for 298 out of 7,607 phytochemicals, with minor variations for the ctxB genotype-specific targets. Multiple phytochemicals from the same plants were identified with high binding affinities,\n                    <jats:italic>e.g.<\/jats:italic>\n                    , 101 from\n                    <jats:italic>Morus alba,<\/jats:italic>\n                    24 from\n                    <jats:italic>Citrus aurantium,<\/jats:italic>\n                    17 from\n                    <jats:italic>Emblica officinalis,<\/jats:italic>\n                    and 16 from\n                    <jats:italic>Capsicum annuum<\/jats:italic>\n                    . However, further analyses, including drug-likeness, pharmacokinetics, and toxicity, identified five promising phytochemical candidates, namely, Abyssinone V (\n                    <jats:italic>Azadirachta indica<\/jats:italic>\n                    ), Diosgenin (\n                    <jats:italic>Achyranthes bidentata<\/jats:italic>\n                    ), Yamogenin (\n                    <jats:italic>Borassus flabellifer<\/jats:italic>\n                    ), and two other unnamed phytochemicals (one from\n                    <jats:italic>Azadirachta indica<\/jats:italic>\n                    and one from\n                    <jats:italic>Morus alba<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) for cholera toxin inhibition. Molecular dynamics simulation using YASARA and GROMACS showed structural stability of the ctxB-phytochemical complexes, while exhibiting adaptive rearrangements of ligand within the active binding sites of the proteins. In the simulations, MM-PBSA binding free energies showed a favorable total binding energy for the complexes. Per-residue energy decomposition analysis identified different highly contributing sets of amino acids to the binding energy with variation for both ctxB genotypes and phytochemicals, suggesting bacterial evolutionary changes may affect binding patterns of the drug candidates. 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