CotC

• Description: spore coat protein (outer)
  
  

Gene name	cotC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	spore coat protein (outer)
Function	resistance of the spore
MW, pI	14 kDa, 9.558
Gene length, protein length	354 bp, 118 aa
Immediate neighbours	yncM, tatAC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU17700

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: CotC-CotU PubMed, CotE-CotC PubMed

• Localization: outer spore coat, more abundant at the mother cell-distal pole of the forespore PubMed, the CotC-CotU complex assembles around the forming spore PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P07790

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cotC (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

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

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • GerE: transcription activation PubMed
  • SpoIIID: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: