CotO

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  • Description: spore coat morphogenetic protein, controls assembly of the coat layers and coat surface topography

Gene name cotO
Synonyms yjbX
Essential no
Product spore coat morphogenetic protein
Function controls assembly of the coat layers
and coat surface topography
MW, pI 25 kDa, 6.376
Gene length, protein length 681 bp, 227 aa
Immediate neighbours fabI, cotZ
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
YjbX context.gif
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Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigE regulon

The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU11730

Phenotypes of a mutant

spores are defective in germination PubMed

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:
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Database entries

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

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Operon: cotO (according to DBTBS)
  • Regulation:
    • repressed by casamino acids PubMed
    • expressed during sporulation in the mother cell PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism:
  • 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

D C McPherson, H Kim, M Hahn, R Wang, P Grabowski, P Eichenberger, A Driks
Characterization of the Bacillus subtilis spore morphogenetic coat protein CotO.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(24);8278-90
[PubMed:16321932] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

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)

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)