CotE

• Description: spore coat protein (outer)
  
  

Gene name	cotE
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	spore coat protein (outer)
Function	required for assembly of CotC-CotU complex
MW, pI	20 kDa, 4.139
Gene length, protein length	543 bp, 181 aa
Immediate neighbours	ymcA, mutS
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU17030

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• 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

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

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P14016

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cotE

• Sigma factor: SigE

• Regulation: repressed by casamino acids 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