CotW

• Description: spore coat protein (insoluble fraction)
  
  

Gene name	cotW
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	spore coat protein (insoluble fraction)
Function	resistance of the spore
MW, pI	12 kDa, 9.955
Gene length, protein length	315 bp, 105 aa
Immediate neighbours	cotX, cotV
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates:

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

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry:

• 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

1. Mäder et al. (2002) Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis of Bacillus subtilis Gene Expression Modulated by Amino Acid Availability. J. Bacteriol 184: 1844288-4295 PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed