CotW

• Description: spore coat protein (insoluble fraction), formation of the spore crust
  
  

Gene name	cotW
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	spore coat protein (insoluble fraction)
Function	resistance of the spore
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: CotW
MW, pI	12 kDa, 9.955
Gene length, protein length	315 bp, 105 aa
Immediate neighbours	cotX, cotV
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

GerE regulon, SigK regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11770

Expression

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:
  • CotV-CotW PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q08310

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cotV-cotW-cotX PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: GerE: transcription activation PubMed,

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: