CotQ

• Description: spore coat protein
  
  

Gene name	cotQ
Synonyms	yvdP
Essential	no
Product	spore coat protein
Function	spore envelope
MW, pI	49 kDa, 6.101
Gene length, protein length	1341 bp, 447 aa
Immediate neighbours	yvdQ, cotR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU34520

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: oxygen-dependent FAD-linked oxidoreductase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• 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: O06997

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cotQ PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed, SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed late during sporulation (SigG, SigK) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

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)

Erh-Min Lai, Nikhil D Phadke, Maureen T Kachman, Rebecca Giorno, Santiago Vazquez, Jenny A Vazquez, Janine R Maddock, Adam Driks
Proteomic analysis of the spore coats of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus anthracis.
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(4);1443-54
[PubMed:12562816] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ritsuko Kuwana, Yasuhiro Kasahara, Machiko Fujibayashi, Hiromu Takamatsu, Naotake Ogasawara, Kazuhito Watabe
Proteomics characterization of novel spore proteins of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2002, 148(Pt 12);3971-3982
[PubMed:12480901] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)