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

NucPred

Fetching P39936 from www.uniprot.org...

The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.92 (see score help below)

   1  MTDQRGPPPPHPQQANGYKKFPPHDNQYSGANNSQPNNHYNENLYSAREP    50
51 HNNKQYQSKNGKYGTNKYNNRNNSQGNAQYYNNRFNNGYRLNNNDYNPAM 100
101 LPGMQWPANYYAPQMYYIPQQMVPVASPPYTHQPLNTNPEPPSTPKTTKI 150
151 EITTKTGERLNLKKFHEEKKASKGEEKNDGVEQKSKSGTPFEKEATPVLP 200
201 ANEAVKDTLTETSNEKSTSEAENTKRLFLEQVRLRKAAMERKKNGLISET 250
251 EKKQETSNHDNTDTTKPNSVIESEPIKEAPKPTGEANEVVIDGKSGASVK 300
301 TPQHVTGSVTKSVTFNEPENESSSQDVDELVKDDDTTEISDTTGGKTVNK 350
351 SDDETINSVITTEENTVKETEPSTSDIEMPTVSQLLETLGKAQPISDIYE 400
401 FAYPENVERPDIKYKKPSVKYTYGPTFLLQFKDKLKFRPDPAWVEAVSSK 450
451 IVIPPHIARNKPKDSGRFGGDFRSPSMRGMDHTSSSRVSSKRRSKRMGDD 500
501 RRSNRGYTSRKDREKAAEKAEEQAPKEEIAPLVPSANRWIPKSRVKKTEK 550
551 KLAPDGKTELFDKEEVERKMKSLLNKLTLEMFDSISSEILDIANQSKWED 600
601 DGETLKIVIEQIFHKACDEPHWSSMYAQLCGKVVKDLDPNIKDKENEGKN 650
651 GPKLVLHYLVARCHEEFEKGWADKLPAGEDGNPLEPEMMSDEYYIAAAAK 700
701 RRGLGLVRFIGYLYCLNLLTGKMMFECFRRLMKDLNNDPSEETLESVIEL 750
751 LNTVGEQFEHDKFVTPQATLEGSVLLDNLFMLLQHIIDGGTISNRIKFKL 800
801 IDVKELREIKHWNSAKKDAGPKTIQQIHQEEEQLRQKKNSQRSNSRFNNH 850
851 NQSNSNRYSSNRRNMQNTQRDSFASTKTGSFRNNQRNARKVEEVSQAPRA 900
901 NMFDALMNNDGDSD 914

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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