CotV

• Description: spore coat protein (insoluble fraction), formation of the spore crust
  
  

Gene name	cotV
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	spore coat protein (insoluble fraction)
Function	resistance of the spore
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: CotV
MW, pI	14 kDa, 4.01
Gene length, protein length	384 bp, 128 aa
Immediate neighbours	cotW, yjcA
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

GerE regulon, SigK regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11780

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: CotV-CotW PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q08309

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cotV-cotW-cotX PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: GerE: transcription activation PubMed,

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Daisuke Imamura, Ritsuko Kuwana, Hiromu Takamatsu, Kazuhito Watabe
Proteins involved in formation of the outermost layer of Bacillus subtilis spores.
J Bacteriol: 2011, 193(16);4075-80
[PubMed:21665972] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Daniela Krajcíková, Magda Lukácová, Denisa Müllerová, Simon M Cutting, Imrich Barák
Searching for protein-protein interactions within the Bacillus subtilis spore coat.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(10);3212-9
[PubMed:19304857] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Ulrike Mäder, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Knut Büttner, Rüdiger Bode, Michael Hecker
Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression modulated by amino acid availability.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(15);4288-95
[PubMed:12107147] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J Zhang, H Ichikawa, R Halberg, L Kroos, A I Aronson
Regulation of the transcription of a cluster of Bacillus subtilis spore coat genes.
J Mol Biol: 1994, 240(5);405-15
[PubMed:7519271] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)