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

NucPred

Fetching P57094 from www.uniprot.org...

The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.84 (see score help below)

   1  MSMSVNEKGICYLPDLGSSFTEDAPRPPVPGEEGDLVSSDGRQYNHSFYS    50
  51  SKSDSLKNEASIATPRRPDLDLGYEPEGSASPTPPYLKWAESLHSLLDDQ   100
 101  DGIHLFRTFLKQEECADMLDFWFACSGFRKQEANDGNEKMLKLAKAIYKK   150
 151  YILDNNGIVSRQIKPATKSFIKDCVTKLHIDPAMFDQAQTEIQTMMEENT   200
 201  YPLFLKSDIYLEYTRTGGESPKLFSDQSSVSGNGKVLPGYLPTVIEDVEW   250
 251  RCDQEEEQIAESDPTPSNRLTQKLPLETVPQRVANSKRYQDNREYRHASW   300
 301  REPVNPYYVNSGYALAPATSANDSEQQSMSSDADTLSLTDSSVDGVPPYR   350
 351  YRKPHRREIHESAKVNGRVPLPHIPRTNRIPKDIHVEPEKFAAELISRLE   400
 401  GVLREREAQEKLEERLKRVRLEEEGDDADISTGPSLANHRVPPAVHVQHY   450
 451  GGRYSEMSYNGLQLRDAHEENPESILDEHVQRVMKTPGCQSPGTGRHSPK   500
 501  SRSPDGLPAGKIPGLMMPLSGGQGKHQARQGPKGEAAHLHHHKHIHHTHY   550
 551  AAAGKPKEQAEAEAARMHGGFAWNTEQHHYGPKSRNYADGMSVGPNTMDP   600
 601  MGYSSKGSTLSKRPVRKGEDGRNFEMREPLPADDMERNQKILQWMMEGEK   650
 651  EAGRYKRGPYGSISGPKKAQGHEPARPSSVERLGAVHPWVTAQLRNNVQP   700
 701  SHPFIQDPTMPPNPAPNPLTQLEEARRRLEEERRKSGTLQAKQRHKNMKK   750
 751  QPCENITVAYYFRGEPIPYRTSVKGRIVTLGQFKELLTKKGSYKYYFKKV   800
 801  SYEFDCGVVFEEVREDDAILPIFEEKIIGKVEKVD                  835

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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