CmpA

• Description: spore coat protein
  
  

Gene name	cmpA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	cortex morphogenetic protein A
Function
MW, pI
Gene length, protein length	111 bp, 37 aa
Immediate neighbours	ydcI, ydcK
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Ebmeier et al., 2012)
Genetic context

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigE regulon, SigK regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU17030

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: assembly of the CotC-CotU complex PubMed

• Protein family: cotE family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:
  • homotypic interaction PubMed
  • CotE-CotC PubMed
  • CotE-CotU PubMed

• Localization:
  • encircles the forespore with a biased accumulation on the mother cell-proximal face of the forespore PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P14016

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cotE PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed, SigK PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed
  • expressed during sporulation in the mother cell (SigE, SigK) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Arthur Aronson, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA homepage

Adriano Henriques, Lisbon, Portugal homepage

References

Additional publications: PubMed