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 0.58 (see score help below)

   1  MANLEESFPRGGTRKIHKPEKAFQQSVEQDNLFDISTEEGSTKRKKSQKG    50
51 PAKTKKLKIEKRESSKSAREKFEILSVESLCEGMRILGCVKEVNELELVI 100
101 SLPNGLQGFVQVTEICDAYTKKLNEQVTQEQPLKDLLHLPELFSPGMLVR 150
151 CVVSSLGITDRGKKSVKLSLNPKNVNRVLSAEALKPGMLLTGTVSSLEDH 200
201 GYLVDIGVDGTRAFLPLLKAQEYIRQKNKGAKLKVGQYLNCIVEKVKGNG 250
251 GVVSLSVGHSEVSTAIATEQQSWNLNNLLPGLVVKAQVQKVTPFGLTLNF 300
301 LTFFTGVVDFMHLDPKKAGTYFSNQAVRACILCVHPRTRVVHLSLRPIFL 350
351 QPGRPLTRLSCQNLGAVLDDVPVQGFFKKAGATFRLKDGVLAYARLSHLS 400
401 DSKNVFNPEAFKPGNTHKCRIIDYSQMDELALLSLRTSIIEAQYLRYHDI 450
451 EPGAVVKGTVLTIKSYGMLVKVGEQMRGLVPPMHLADILMKNPEKKYHIG 500
501 DEVKCRVLLCDPEAKKLMMTLKKTLIESKLPVITCYADAKPGLQTHGFII 550
551 RVKDYGCIVKFYNNVQGLVPKHELSTEYIPDPERVFYTGQVVKVVVLNCE 600
601 PSKERMLLSFKLSSDPEPKKEPAGHSQKKGKAINIGQLVDVKVLEKTKDG 650
651 LEVAVLPHNIRAFLPTSHLSDHVANGPLLHHWLQAGDILHRVLCLSQSEG 700
701 RVLLCRKPALVSTVEGGQDPKNFSEIHPGMLLIGFVKSIKDYGVFIQFPS 750
751 GLSGLAPKAIMSDKFVTSTSDHFVEGQTVAAKVTNVDEEKQRMLLSLRLS 800
801 DCGLGDLAITSLLLLNQCLEELQGVRSLMSNRDSVLIQTLAEMTPGMFLD 850
851 LVVQEVLEDGSVVFSGGPVPDLVLKASRYHRAGQEVESGQKKKVVILNVD 900
901 LLKLEVHVSLHQDLVNRKARKLRKGSEHQAIVQHLEKSFAIASLVETGHL 950
951 AAFSLTSHLNDTFRFDSEKLQVGQGVSLTLKTTEPGVTGLLLAVEGPAAK 1000
1001 RTMRPTQKDSETVDEDEEVDPALTVGTIKKHTLSIGDMVTGTVKSIKPTH 1050
1051 VVVTLEDGIIGCIHASHILDDVPEGTSPTTKLKVGKTVTARVIGGRDMKT 1100
1101 FKYLPISHPRFVRTIPELSVRPSELEDGHTALNTHSVSPMEKIKQYQAGQ 1150
1151 TVTCFLKKYNVVKKWLEVEIAPDIRGRIPLLLTSLSFKVLKHPDKKFRVG 1200
1201 QALRATVVGPDSSKTLLCLSLTGPHKLEEGEVAMGRVVKVTPNEGLTVSF 1250
1251 PFGKIGTVSIFHMSDSYSETPLEDFVPQKVVRCYILSTADNVLTLSLRSS 1300
1301 RTNPETKSKVEDPEINSIQDIKEGQLLRGYVGSIQPHGVFFRLGPSVVGL 1350
1351 ARYSHVSQHSPSKKALYNKHLPEGKLLTARVLRLNHQKNLVELSFLPGDT 1400
1401 GKPDVLSASLEGQLTKQEERKTEAEERDQKGEKKNQKRNEKKNQKGQEEV 1450
1451 EMPSKEKQQPQKPQAQKRGGRECRESGSEQERVSKKPKKAGLSEEDDSLV 1500
1501 DVYYREGKEEAEETNVLPKEKQTKPAEAPRLQLSSGFAWNVGLDSLTPAL 1550
1551 PPLAESSDSEEDEKPHQATIKKSKKERELEKQKAEKELSRIEEALMDPGR 1600
1601 QPESADDFDRLVLSSPNSSILWLQYMAFHLQATEIEKARAVAERALKTIS 1650
1651 FREEQEKLNVWVALLNLENMYGSQESLTKVFERAVQYNEPLKVFLHLADI 1700
1701 YAKSEKFQEAGELYNRMLKRFRQEKAVWIKYGAFLLRRSQAAASHRVLQR 1750
1751 ALECLPSKEHVDVIAKFAQLEFQLGDAERAKAIFENTLSTYPKRTDVWSV 1800
1801 YIDMTIKHGSQKDVRDIFERVIHLSLAPKRMKFFFKRYLDYEKQHGTEKD 1850
1851 VQAVKAKALEYVEAKSSVLED 1871

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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