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NucPred

Fetching O70305 from www.uniprot.org...

The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.80 (see score help below)

   1  MRSSTAAVQRPAAGDPEPRRPAGWAARRSLPRTARRGGRGGAVAYPSAGP    50
51 PPRGPGAPPRGPRSPPCASDCFGSNGHGASRPGSRRLLGVCGPPRPFVVV 100
101 LLALAPAATPARACPPGVRASPPRSGVSSSARPAPGCPRPACEPVYGPLT 150
151 MSLKPQPQPPAPATGRKPGGGLLSSPGAAPASAAVTSASVVPAPAAPVAS 200
201 SSAAAGGGRPGLGRGRNSSKGLPQPTISFDGIYANVRMVHILTSVVGSKC 250
251 EVQVKNGGIYEGVFKTYSPKCDLVLDAAHEKSTESSSGPKREEIMESVLF 300
301 KCSDFVVVQFKDTDSSYARRDAFTDSALSAKVNGEHKEKDLEPWDAGELT 350
351 ASEELELENDVSNGWDPNDMFRYNEENYGVVSTYDSSLSSYTVPLERDNS 400
401 EEFLKREARANQLAEEIESSAQYKARVALENDDRSEEEKYTAVQRNCSDR 450
451 EGHGPNTRDNKYIPPGQRNREVLSWGSGRQSSPRMGQPGPGSMPSRAASH 500
501 TSDFNPNAGSDQRVVNGGVPWPSPCPSHSSRPPSRYQSGPNSLPPRAATH 550
551 TRPPSRPPSRPSRPPSHPSAHGSPAPVSTMPKRMSSEGPPRMSPKAQRHP 600
601 RNHRVSAGRGSMSSGLEFVSHNPPSEAAAPPVARTSPAGGTWSSVVSGVP 650
651 RLSPKTHRPRSPRQSSIGNSPSGPVLASPQAGIIPAEAVSMPVPAASPTP 700
701 ASPASNRALTPSIEAKDSRLQDQRQNSPAGSKENVKASETSPSFSKADNK 750
751 GMSPVVSEHRKQIDDLKKFKNDFRLQPSSTSESMDQLLSKNREGEKSRDL 800
801 IKDKTEASAKDSFIDSSSSSSNCTSGSSKTNSPSISPSMLSNAEHKRGPE 850
851 VTSQGVQTSSPACKQEKDDREEKKDTTEQVRKSTLNPNAKEFNPRSFSQP 900
901 KPSTTPTSPRPQAQPSPSMVGHQQPAPVYTQPVCFAPNMMYPVPVSPGVQ 950
951 PLYPIPMTPMPVNQAKTYRAGKVPNMPQQRQDQHHQSTMMHPASAAGPPI 1000
1001 VATPPAYSTQYVAYSPQQFPNQPLVQHVPHYQSQHPHVYSPVIQGNARMM 1050
1051 APPAHAQPGLVSSSAAQFGAHEQTHAMYACPKLPYNKETSPSFYFAISTG 1100
1101 SLAQQYAHPNAALHPHTPHPQPSATPTGQQQSQHGGSHPAPSPVQHHQHQ 1150
1151 AAQALHLASPQQQSAIYHAGLAPTPPSMTPASNTQSPQSSFPAAQQTVFT 1200
1201 IHPSHVQPAYTTPPHMAHVPQAHVQSGMVPSHPTAHAPMMLMTTQPPGPK 1250
1251 AALAQSALQPIPVSTTAHFPYMTHPSVQAHHQQQL 1285

Positively and negatively influencing subsequences are coloured according to the following scale:

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If you find NucPred useful, please cite this paper:
NucPred - Predicting Nuclear Localization of Proteins. Brameier M, Krings A, Maccallum RM. Bioinformatics, 2007. PubMed id: 17332022
The authors also look forward to your comments and suggestions.

What does the NucPred score mean?

You have to decide on a NucPred score threshold. Sequences which score greater than or equal to this threshold are predicted to spend some time in the nucleus. Higher thresholds yield fewer predicted nuclear proteins, but these predictions are more accurate (you can have higher confidence in them). The table below gives more details of the performance of NucPred estimated using the sequences it was trained on (by cross-validation). Another benchmark is available in the Bioinformatics 2007 paper.

NucPred score threshold Specificity Sensitivity
see above fraction of proteins predicted to be nuclear that actually are nuclear fraction of true nuclear proteins that are predicted (coverage)
0.10 0.45 0.88
0.20 0.52 0.83
0.30 0.57 0.77
0.40 0.63 0.69
0.50 0.70 0.62
0.60 0.71 0.53
0.70 0.81 0.44
0.80 0.84 0.32
0.90 0.88 0.21
1.00 1.00 0.02

Sequences which score >= 0.8 with NucPred and which are predicted by PredictNLS to contain an NLS have been shown to be 93% correct with a coverage of 16%. (PredictNLS by itself is 87% correct with 26% coverage on the same data.)

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