CotU

• Description: spore coat protein
  
  

Gene name	cotU
Synonyms	ynzH
Essential	no
Product	spore coat protein
Function	resistance of the spore
MW, pI	11 kDa, 6.315
Gene length, protein length	258 bp, 86 aa
Immediate neighbours	yncF, thyA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU17670

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

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: CotC-CotU PubMed, CotE-CotU PubMed

• Localization: the CotC-CotU complex assembles around the forming spore PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31802

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • GerR: transcription repression PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: