CotJA

• Description: polypeptide composition of the spore coat
  
  

Gene name	cotJA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	polypeptide composition of the spore coat
MW, pI	9 kDa, 9.196
Gene length, protein length	246 bp, 82 aa
Immediate neighbours	yesF, cotJB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigE regulon, SpoIIID regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU06890

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: CotJA-CotJC PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q45536

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cotJA-cotJB-cotJC-yesJ-yesK PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

• Regulation: expressed during sporulation (SigE, SpoIIID) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: SpoIIID: transcription activation PubMed

• 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)

R W Seyler, A O Henriques, A J Ozin, C P Moran
Assembly and interactions of cotJ-encoded proteins, constituents of the inner layers of the Bacillus subtilis spore coat.
Mol Microbiol: 1997, 25(5);955-66
[PubMed:9364920] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A O Henriques, B W Beall, K Roland, C P Moran
Characterization of cotJ, a sigma E-controlled operon affecting the polypeptide composition of the coat of Bacillus subtilis spores.
J Bacteriol: 1995, 177(12);3394-406
[PubMed:7768848] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)