CotP

• Description: probable spore coat protein
  
  

Gene name	cotP
Synonyms	ydfT
Essential	no
Product	probable spore coat protein
Function	resistance of the spore
MW, pI	16 kDa, 4.56
Gene length, protein length	429 bp, 143 aa
Immediate neighbours	ydfS, ydgA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU05550

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: small heat shock protein (HSP20) family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P96698

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ydgB-ydgA-cotP (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed during sporulation (SigK) PubMed
  • repressed by GerE PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• 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)

S Reischl, S Thake, G Homuth, W Schumann
Transcriptional analysis of three Bacillus subtilis genes coding for proteins with the alpha-crystallin domain characteristic of small heat shock proteins.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2001, 194(1);99-103
[PubMed:11150673] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A O Henriques, B W Beall, C P Moran
CotM of Bacillus subtilis, a member of the alpha-crystallin family of stress proteins, is induced during development and participates in spore outer coat formation.
J Bacteriol: 1997, 179(6);1887-97
[PubMed:9068633] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)