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

NucPred

Fetching P53420 from www.uniprot.org...

The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.25 (see score help below)

   1  MWSLHIVLMRCSFRLTKSLATGPWSLILILFSVQYVYGSGKKYIGPCGGR    50
51 DCSVCHCVPEKGSRGPPGPPGPQGPIGPLGAPGPIGLSGEKGMRGDRGPP 100
101 GAAGDKGDKGPTGVPGFPGLDGIPGHPGPPGPRGKPGMSGHNGSRGDPGF 150
151 PGGRGALGPGGPLGHPGEKGEKGNSVFILGAVKGIQGDRGDPGLPGLPGS 200
201 WGAGGPAGPTGYPGEPGLVGPPGQPGRPGLKGNPGVGVKGQMGDPGEVGQ 250
251 QGSPGPTLLVEPPDFCLYKGEKGIKGIPGMVGLPGPPGRKGESGIGAKGE 300
301 KGIPGFPGPRGDPGSYGSPGFPGLKGELGLVGDPGLFGLIGPKGDPGNRG 350
351 HPGPPGVLVTPPLPLKGPPGDPGFPGRYGETGDVGPPGPPGLLGRPGEAC 400
401 AGMIGPPGPQGFPGLPGLPGEAGIPGRPDSAPGKPGKPGSPGLPGAPGLQ 450
451 GLPGSSVIYCSVGNPGPQGIKGKVGPPGGRGPKGEKGNEGLCACEPGPMG 500
501 PPGPPGLPGRQGSKGDLGLPGWLGTKGDPGPPGAEGPPGLPGKHGASGPP 550
551 GNKGAKGDMVVSRVKGHKGERGPDGPPGFPGQPGSHGRDGHAGEKGDPGP 600
601 PGDHEDATPGGKGFPGPLGPPGKAGPVGPPGLGFPGPPGERGHPGVPGHP 650
651 GVRGPDGLKGQKGDTISCNVTYPGRHGPPGFDGPPGPKGFPGPQGAPGLS 700
701 GSDGHKGRPGTPGTAEIPGPPGFRGDMGDPGFGGEKGSSPVGPPGPPGSP 750
751 GVNGQKGIPGDPAFGHLGPPGKRGLSGVPGIKGPRGDPGCPGAEGPAGIP 800
801 GFLGLKGPKGREGHAGFPGVPGPPGHSCERGAPGIPGQPGLPGYPGSPGA 850
851 PGGKGQPGDVGPPGPAGMKGLPGLPGRPGAHGPPGLPGIPGPFGDDGLPG 900
901 PPGPKGPRGLPGFPGFPGERGKPGAEGCPGAKGEPGEKGMSGLPGDRGLR 950
951 GAKGAIGPPGDEGEMAIISQKGTPGEPGPPGDDGFPGERGDKGTPGMQGR 1000
1001 RGEPGRYGPPGFHRGEPGEKGQPGPPGPPGPPGSTGLRGFIGFPGLPGDQ 1050
1051 GEPGSPGPPGFSGIDGARGPKGNKGDPASHFGPPGPKGEPGSPGCPGHFG 1100
1101 ASGEQGLPGIQGPRGSPGRPGPPGSSGPPGCPGDHGMPGLRGQPGEMGDP 1150
1151 GPRGLQGDPGIPGPPGIKGPSGSPGLNGLHGLKGQKGTKGASGLHDVGPP 1200
1201 GPVGIPGLKGERGDPGSPGISPPGPRGKKGPPGPPGSSGPPGPAGATGRA 1250
1251 PKDIPDPGPPGDQGPPGPDGPRGAPGPPGLPGSVDLLRGEPGDCGLPGPP 1300
1301 GPPGPPGPPGYKGFPGCDGKDGQKGPVGFPGPQGPHGFPGPPGEKGLPGP 1350
1351 PGRKGPTGLPGPRGEPGPPADVDDCPRIPGLPGAPGMRGPEGAMGLPGMR 1400
1401 GPSGPGCKGEPGLDGRRGVDGVPGSPGPPGRKGDTGEDGYPGGPGPPGPI 1450
1451 GDPGPKGFGPGYLGGFLLVLHSQTDQEPTCPLGMPRLWTGYSLLYLEGQE 1500
1501 KAHNQDLGLAGSCLPVFSTLPFAYCNIHQVCHYAQRNDRSYWLASAAPLP 1550
1551 MMPLSEEAIRPYVSRCAVCEAPAQAVAVHSQDQSIPPCPQTWRSLWIGYS 1600
1601 FLMHTGAGDQGGGQALMSPGSCLEDFRAAPFLECQGRQGTCHFFANKYSF 1650
1651 WLTTVKADLQFSSAPAPDTLKESQAQRQKISRCQVCVKYS 1690

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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