CotSA

• Description: spore coat protein
  
  

Gene name	cotSA
Synonyms	ytxN, ytbA
Essential	no
Product	spore coat protein
Function	resistance of the spore
MW, pI	42 kDa, 7.812
Gene length, protein length	1131 bp, 377 aa
Immediate neighbours	cotS, cotI
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU30910

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: glycosyltransferase 1 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): YtcC

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P46915

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

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• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

S Little, A Driks
Functional analysis of the Bacillus subtilis morphogenetic spore coat protein CotE.
Mol Microbiol: 2001, 42(4);1107-20
[PubMed:11737650] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

H Takamatsu, T Kodama, K Watabe
Assembly of the CotSA coat protein into spores requires CotS in Bacillus subtilis.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 1999, 174(1);201-6
[PubMed:10234840] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)