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 0.90 (see score help below)

   1  MSRPPPTGKMPGAPEAVSGDGAGASRQRKLEALIRDPRSPINVESLLDGL    50
51 NPLVLDLDFPALRKNKNIDNFLNRYEKIVKKIRGLQMKAEDYDVVKVIGR 100
101 GAFGEVQLVRHKASQKVYAMKLLSKFEMIKRSDSAFFWEERDIMAFANSP 150
151 WVVQLFCAFQDDKYLYMVMEYMPGGDLVNLMSNYDVPEKWAKFYTAEVVL 200
201 ALDAIHSMGLIHRDVKPDNMLLDKHGHLKLADFGTCMKMDETGMVHCDTA 250
251 VGTPDYISPEVLKSQGGDGYYGRECDWWSVGVFLFEMLVGDTPFYADSLV 300
301 GTYSKIMDHKNSLCFPEDAEISKHAKNLICAFLTDREVRLGRNGVEEIKQ 350
351 HPFFKNDQWNWDNIRETAAPVVPELSSDIDSSNFDDIEDDKGDVETFPIP 400
401 KAFVGNQLPFIGFTYYRENLLLSDSPSCKENDSIQSRKNEESQEIQKKLY 450
451 TLEEHLSTEIQAKEELEQKCKSVNTRLEKVAKELEEEITLRKNVESTLRQ 500
501 LEREKALLQHKNAEYQRKADHEADKKRNLENDVNSLKDQLEDLKKRNQNS 550
551 QISTEKVNQLQRQLDETNALLRTESDTAARLRKTQAESSKQIQQLESNNR 600
601 DLQDKNCLLETAKLKLEKEFINLQSVLESERRDRTHGSEIINDLQGRISG 650
651 LEEDVKNGKILLAKVELEKRQLQERFTDLEKEKNNMEIDMTYQLKVIQQS 700
701 LEQEETEHKATKARLADKNKIYESIEEAKSEAMKEMEKKLSEERTLKQKV 750
751 ENLLLEAEKRCSILDCDLKQSQQKINELLKQKDVLNEDVRNLTLKIEQET 800
801 QKRCLTQNDLKMQTQQVNTLKMSEKQLKQENNHLLEMKMSLEKQNAELRK 850
851 ERQDADGQMKELQDQLEAEQYFSTLYKTQVRELKEECEEKTKLCKELQQK 900
901 KQELQDERDSLAAQLEITLTKADSEQLARSIAEEQYSDLEKEKIMKELEI 950
951 KEMMARHKQELTEKDATIASLEETNRTLTSDVANLANEKEELNNKLKEAQ 1000
1001 EQLSRLKDEEISAAAIKAQFEKQLLTERTLKTQAVNKLAEIMNRKEPVKR 1050
1051 GNDTDVRRKEKENRKLHMELKSEREKLTQQMIKYQKELNEMQAQIAEESQ 1100
1101 IRIELQMTLDSKDSDIEQLRSQLQALHIGLDSSSIGSGPGDTEADDGFPE 1150
1151 SRLEGWLSLPVRNNTKKFGWVKKYVIVSSKKILFYDSEQDKEQSNPYMVL 1200
1201 DIDKLFHVRPVTQTDVYRADAKEIPRIFQILYANEGESKKEQEFPVEPVG 1250
1251 EKSNYICHKGHEFIPTLYHFPTNCEACMKPLWHMFKPPPALECRRCHIKC 1300
1301 HKDHMDKKEEIIAPCKVYYDISSAKNLLLLANSTEEQQKWVSRLVKKIPK 1350
1351 KPPAPDPFARSSPRTSMKIQQNQSIRRPSRQLAPNKPS 1388

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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