CotZ

• Description: spore coat protein (insoluble fraction)
  
  

Gene name	cotZ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	spore coat protein (insoluble fraction)
Function	resistance of the spore
MW, pI	16 kDa, 5.102
Gene length, protein length	444 bp, 148 aa
Immediate neighbours	cotO, cotY
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11740

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: CotY-CotZ PubMed

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

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q08312

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Daniela Krajcíková, Magda Lukácová, Denisa Müllerová, Simon M Cutting, Imrich Barák
Searching for protein-protein interactions within the Bacillus subtilis spore coat.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(10);3212-9
[PubMed:19304857] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)