CotT

• Description: spore coat protein (inner)
  
  

Gene name	cotT
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	spore coat protein (inner)
Function	resistance of the spore
MW, pI	12 kDa, 9.466
Gene length, protein length	321 bp, 107 aa
Immediate neighbours	ctaO, yjeA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU12090

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: spore wall (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P11863

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Arthur Aronson, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA homepage

References

H Takamatsu, T Kodama, A Imamura, K Asai, K Kobayashi, T Nakayama, N Ogasawara, K Watabe
The Bacillus subtilis yabG gene is transcribed by SigK RNA polymerase during sporulation, and yabG mutant spores have altered coat protein composition.
J Bacteriol: 2000, 182(7);1883-8
[PubMed:10714992] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

N Bourne, P C FitzJames, A I Aronson
Structural and germination defects of Bacillus subtilis spores with altered contents of a spore coat protein.
J Bacteriol: 1991, 173(20);6618-25
[PubMed:1917883] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)