SBC logo Authors: Amine Heddad, Andrea Krings, Markus Brameier and Bob MacCallum, Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Stockholm University, Sweden.

NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.27 (see score help below)

   1  MTNPSDRVLPANSMAESREGDFGCTVMELRKLMELRSRDALTQINVHYGG    50
51 VQNLCSRLKTSPVEGLSGNPADLEKRRQVFGHNVIPPKKPKTFLELVWEA 100
101 LQDVTLIILEIAAIISLVLSFYRPAGEENELCGQVATTPEDENEAQAGWI 150
151 EGAAILFSVIIVVLVTAFNDWSKEKQFRGLQCRIEQEQKFSIIRNGQLIQ 200
201 LPVAEIVVGDIAQVKYGDLLPADGILIQGNDLKIDESSLTGESDHVKKSL 250
251 DKDPMLLSGTHVMEGSGRMVVTAVGVNSQTGIILTLLGVNEDDEGEKKKK 300
301 GKKQGVPENRNKAKTQDGVALEIQPLNSQEGIDNEEKDKKAVKVPKKEKS 350
351 VLQGKLTRLAVQIGKAGLLMSALTVFILILYFVIDNFVINRRPWLPECTP 400
401 IYIQYFVKFFIIGITVLVVAVPEGLPLAVTISLAYSVKKMMKDNNLVRHL 450
451 DACETMGNATAICSDKTGTLTMNRMTVVQAYIGGIHYRQIPSPDVFLPKV 500
501 LDLIVNGISINSAYTSKILPPEKEGGLPRQVGNKTECALLGFVTDLKQDY 550
551 QAVRNEVPEEKLYKVYTFNSVRKSMSTVIRNPNGGFRMYSKGASEIILRK 600
601 CNRILDRKGEAVPFKNKDRDDMVRTVIEPMACDGLRTICIAYRDFDDTEP 650
651 SWDNENEILTELTCIAVVGIEDPVRPEVPDAIAKCKQAGITVRMVTGDNI 700
701 NTARAIATKCGILTPGDDFLCLEGKEFNRLIRNEKGEVEQEKLDKIWPKL 750
751 RVLARSSPTDKHTLVKGIIDSTVGEHRQVVAVTGDGTNDGPALKKADVGF 800
801 AMGIAGTDVAKEASDIILTDDNFTSIVKAVMWGRNVYDSISKFLQFQLTV 850
851 NVVAVIVAFTGACITQDSPLKAVQMLWVNLIMDTFASLALATEPPTESLL 900
901 KRRPYGRNKPLISRTMMKNILGHAFYQLIVIFILVFAGEKFFDIDSGRKA 950
951 PLHSPPSQHYTIVFNTFVLMQLFNEINSRKIHGEKNVFSGIYRNIIFCSV 1000
1001 VLGTFICQIFIVEFGGKPFSCTSLSLSQWLWCLFIGIGELLWGQFISAIP 1050
1051 TRSLKFLKEAGHGTTKEEITKDAEGLDEIDHAEMELRRGQILWFRGLNRI 1100
1101 QTQIDVINTFQTGASFKGVLRRQNMGQHLDVKLVPSSSYIKVVKAFHSSL 1150
1151 HESIQKPYNQKSIHSFMTHPEFAIEEELPRTPLLDEEEEENPDKASKFGT 1200
1201 RVLLLDGEVTPYANTNNNAVDCNQVQLPQSDSSLQSLETSV 1241

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

(non-nuclear) negative ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| positive (nuclear)

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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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