CotX

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  • Description: spore coat protein (insoluble fraction), necessary for the assembly of the spre crust, the outermost layer of the spore coat

Gene name cotX
Synonyms
Essential no
Product spore coat protein (insoluble fraction)
Function spore coat assembly
MW, pI 18 kDa, 4.228
Gene length, protein length 516 bp, 172 aa
Immediate neighbours cotY, cotW
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
CotX context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU11760

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

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:
  • Localization: spore wall (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

  • Structure:
  • KEGG entry: [3]
  • E.C. number:

Additional information

Expression and regulation

cotX PubMed

before cotX: SigK PubMed

  • Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed
  • Additional information:

Biological materials

  • Mutant:
  • Expression vector:
  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
  • two-hybrid system:
  • Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Peter T McKenney, Adam Driks, Haig A Eskandarian, Paul Grabowski, Jonathan Guberman, Katherine H Wang, Zemer Gitai, Patrick Eichenberger
A distance-weighted interaction map reveals a previously uncharacterized layer of the Bacillus subtilis spore coat.
Curr Biol: 2010, 20(10);934-8
[PubMed:20451384] [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)

H Ichikawa, L Kroos
Combined action of two transcription factors regulates genes encoding spore coat proteins of Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 2000, 275(18);13849-55
[PubMed:10788508] [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)