YtxO

• Description: spore coat protein
  
  

Gene name	ytxO
Synonyms	ytbB
Essential	no
Product	spore coat protein
Function	unknown
MW, pI	16 kDa, 4.402
Gene length, protein length	429 bp, 143 aa
Immediate neighbours	ytcC, cotS
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU30890

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

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: outer spore coat PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P46916

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cotSA-cotS-ytxO PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed late during sporulation in the mother cell (SigK) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Daisuke Imamura, Ritsuko Kuwana, Hiromu Takamatsu, Kazuhito Watabe
Localization of proteins to different layers and regions of Bacillus subtilis spore coats.
J Bacteriol: 2010, 192(2);518-24
[PubMed:19933362] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Leif Steil, Mónica Serrano, Adriano O Henriques, Uwe Völker
Genome-wide analysis of temporally regulated and compartment-specific gene expression in sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2005, 151(Pt 2);399-420
[PubMed:15699190] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

H Takamatsu, Y Chikahiro, T Kodama, H Koide, S Kozuka, K Tochikubo, K Watabe
A spore coat protein, CotS, of Bacillus subtilis is synthesized under the regulation of sigmaK and GerE during development and is located in the inner coat layer of spores.
J Bacteriol: 1998, 180(11);2968-74
[PubMed:9603889] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)