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NucPred

Fetching Q25338 from www.uniprot.org...

The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.43 (see score help below)

   1  MHSKELQTISAAVARKAVPNTMVIRLKRDEEDGEMTLEERQAQCKAIEYS    50
51 NSVFGMIADVANDIGSIPVIGEVVGIVTAPIAIVSHITSAGLDIASTALD 100
101 CDDIPFDEIKEILEERFNEIDRKLDKNTAALEEVSKLVSKTFVTVEKTRN 150
151 EMNENFKLVLETIESKEIKSIVFKINDFKKFFEKERQRIKGLPKDRYVAK 200
201 LLEQKGILGSLKEVREPSGNSLSSALNELLDKNNNYAIPKVVDDNKAFQA 250
251 LYALFYGTQTYAAVMFFLLEQHSYLADYYYQKGDDVNFNAEFNNVAIIFD 300
301 DFKSSLTGGDDGLIDNVIEVLNTVKALPFIKNADSKLYRELVTRTKALET 350
351 LKNQIKTTDLPLIDDIPETLSQVNFPNDENQLPTPIGNWVDGVEVRYAVQ 400
401 YESKGMYSKFSEWSEPFTVQGNACPTIKVRVDPKKRNRLIFRKFNSGKPQ 450
451 FAGTMTHSQTNFKDIHRDLYDAALNINKLKAVDEATTLIEKGADIEAKFD 500
501 NDRSAMHAVAYRGNNKIALRFLLKNQSIDIELKDKNGFTPLHIAAEAGQA 550
551 GFVKLLINHGADVNAKTSKTNLTPLHLATRSGFSKTVRNLLESPNIKVNE 600
601 KEDDGFTPLHTAVMSTYMVVDALLNHPDIDKNAQSTSGLTPFHLAIINES 650
651 QEVAESLVESNADLNIQDVNHMAPIHFAASMGSIKMLRYLISIKDKVSIN 700
701 SVTENNNWTPLHFAIYFKKEDAAKELLKQDDINLTIVADGNLTVLHLAVS 750
751 TGQINIIKELLKRGSNIEEKTGEGYTSLHIAAMRKEPEIAVVLIENGADI 800
801 EARSADNLTPLHSAAKIGRKSTVLYLLEKGADIGAKTADGSTALHLAVSG 850
851 RKMKTVETLLNKGANLKEYDNNKYLPIHKAIINDDLDMVRLFLEKDPSLK 900
901 DDETEEGRTSIMLIVQKLLLELYNYFINNYAETLDEEALFNRLDEQGKLE 950
951 LAYIFHNKEGDAKEAVKPTILVTIKLMEYCLKKLREESGAPEGSFDSPSS 1000
1001 KQCISTFSEDEMFRRTLPEIVKETNSRYLPLKGFSRSLNKFLPSLKFAES 1050
1051 KNSYRSENFVSNIDSNGALLLLDVFIRKFTNEKYNLTGKEAVPYLEAKAS 1100
1101 SLRIASKFEELLTEVKGIPAGELINMAEVSSNIHKAIASGKPVSKVLCSY 1150
1151 LDTFSELNSQQMEELVNTYLSTKPSVITSASADYQKLPNLLTATCLEPER 1200
1201 MAQLIDVHQKMFLR 1214

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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