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 0.93 (see score help below)

   1  MTDAQMADFGAAAQYLRKSEKERLEAQTRPFDIRTECFVPDDKEEYVKAK    50
51 VVSREGGKVTAETENGKTVTIKEDQVMQQNPPKFDKIEDMAMLTFLHEPA 100
101 VLYNLKERYAAWMIYTYSGLFCVTVNPYKWLPVYNAEVVAAYRGKKRSEA 150
151 PPHIFSISDNAYQYMLTDRENQSILITGESGAGKTVNTKRVIQYFASIAA 200
201 IGDRSKKENPNANKGTLEDQIIQANPALEAFGNAKTVRNDNSSRFGKFIR 250
251 IHFGATGKLASADIETYLLEKSRVIFQLKAERNYHIFYQILSNKKPELLD 300
301 MLLVTNNPYDYAFVSQGEVSVASIDDSEELLATDSAFDVLSFTAEEKAGV 350
351 YKLTGAIMHYGNMKFKQKQREEQAEPDGTEDADKSAYLMGLNSADLLKGL 400
401 CHPRVKVGNEYVTKGQSVQQVYYSIGALAKSVYEKMFNWMVTRINATLET 450
451 KQPRQYFIGVLDIAGFEIFDFNSFEQLCINFTNEKLQQFFNHHMFVLEQE 500
501 EYKKEGIEWEFIDFGMDLQACIDLIEKPMGIMSILEEECMFPKASDMTFK 550
551 AKLYDNHLGKSNNFQKPRNVKGKQEAHFSLVHYAGTVDYNIMGWLEKNKD 600
601 PLNETVVGLYQKSSLKLMATLFSTYASADTGDSGKGKGGKKKGSSFQTVS 650
651 ALHRENLNKLMTNLKTTHPHFVRCIIPNERKAPGVMDNPLVMHQLRCNGV 700
701 LEGIRICRKGFPNRILYGDFRQRYRILNPAAIPEGQFIDSRKGAEKLLGS 750
751 LDIDHNQYKFGHTKVFFKAGLLGLLEEMRDERLSRIITRIQAQARGQLMR 800
801 IEFKKIVERRDALLVIQWNIRAFMGVKNWPWMKLYFKIKPLLKSAETEKE 850
851 MANMKEEFGRVKDALEKSEARRKELEEKMVSLLQEKNDLQLQVQAEQDNL 900
901 NDAEERCDQLIKNKIQLEAKVKEMTERLEDEEEMNAELTAKKRKLEDECS 950
951 ELKKDIDDLELTLAKVEKEKHATENKVKNLTEEMAGLDEIIAKLTKEKKA 1000
1001 LQEAHQQALDDLQAEEDKVNTLTKSKVKLEQQVDDLEGSLEQEKKVRMDL 1050
1051 ERAKRKLEGDLKLTQESIMDLENDKLQLEEKLKKKEFDISQQNSKIEDEQ 1100
1101 ALALQLQKKLKENQARIEELEEELEAERTARAKVEKLRSDLSRELEEISE 1150
1151 RLEEAGGATSVQIEMNKKREAEFQKMRRDLEEATLQHEATAAALRKKHAD 1200
1201 SVAELGEQIDNLQRVKQKLEKEKSEFKLELDDVTSNMEQIIKAKANLEKV 1250
1251 SRTLEDQANEYRVKLEEAQRSLNDFTTQRAKLQTENGELARQLEEKEALI 1300
1301 SQLTRGKLSYTQQMEDLKRQLEEEGKAKNALAHALQSSRHDCDLLREQYE 1350
1351 EEMEAKAELQRVLSKANSEVAQWRTKYETDAIQRTEELEEAKKKLAQRLQ 1400
1401 DAEEAVEAVNAKCSSLEKTKHRLQNEIEDLMVDVERSNAAAAALDKKQRN 1450
1451 FDKILAEWKQKYEESQSELESSQKEARSLSTELFKLKNAYEESLEHLETF 1500
1501 KRENKNLQEEISDLTEQLGEGGKNVHELEKIRKQLEVEKLELQSALEEAE 1550
1551 ASLEHEEGKILRAQLEFNQIKAEIERKLAEKDEEMEQAKRNHLRMVDSLQ 1600
1601 TSLDAETRSRNEALRVKKKMEGDLNEMEIQLSQANRIASEAQKHLKNSQA 1650
1651 HLKDTQLQLDDAVHANDDLKENIAIVERRNNLLQAELEELRAVVEQTERS 1700
1701 RKLAEQELIETSERVQLLHSQNTSLINQKKKMESDLTQLQTEVEEAVQEC 1750
1751 RNAEEKAKKAITDAAMMAEELKKEQDTSAHLERMKKNMEQTIKDLQHRLD 1800
1801 EAEQIALKGGKKQLQKLEARVRELENELEAEQKRNAESVKGMRKSERRIK 1850
1851 ELTYQTEEDKKNLMRLQDLVDKLQLKVKAYKRQAEEAEEQANTNLSKFRK 1900
1901 VQHELDEAEERADIAESQVNKLRAKSRDIGAKKMHDEE 1938

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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