CoxA

• Description: spore cortex protein
  
  

Gene name	coxA
Synonyms	yrbB
Essential	no
Product	spore cortex protein
Function	resistance of the spore
MW, pI	19 kDa, 9.224
Gene length, protein length	516 bp, 172 aa
Immediate neighbours	yrbC, safA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigE regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU27830

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:

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P94446

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: safA-coxA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed early during sporulation in the mother cell (SigE) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

H Takamatsu, T Kodama, T Nakayama, K Watabe
Characterization of the yrbA gene of Bacillus subtilis, involved in resistance and germination of spores.
J Bacteriol: 1999, 181(16);4986-94
[PubMed:10438771] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)