CotA

• Description: laccase, spore coat protein (outer)
  
  

Gene name	cotA
Synonyms	pig
Essential	no
Product	laccase
Function	resistance of the spore
MW, pI	58 kDa, 5.89
Gene length, protein length	1539 bp, 513 aa
Immediate neighbours	yeaA, gabP
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

SigK regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU06300

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:

• Localization: outer spore coat, more abundant at the mother cell-distal pole of the forespore PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 2BHF (reduced form)

• UniProt: P07788

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cotA (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: