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 0.95 (see score help below)

   1  MFLMPTSSELNSGQNFLTQWMTNPSRAGVILNRGFPILEADKEKRAAVDI    50
  51  STSFPIKGTHFSDSFSFINEEDSLLEEQKLESNSPYKPQSDKSETHTGFP   100
 101  CIKKGPQVAACHSAPGHQEENKNDFIPHLASEFKEGAYKDPLFKKLEQLK   150
 151  EVQQKKQEQLKRQQLEQLQRLMEEQEKLLTMVSGQCTLPGLSLLPDDQSQ   200
 201  KHRSPGNTTTGERATCCFPSYVYPDPTQEETYASNILSHEQSNFCRTAHG   250
 251  DFVLTSKRASPNLFSEAQYQEAPVEKNNLKEENRNHPTGESILSCWEKVT   300
 301  EQIQEANDKNLQKHDDSSEVANIEERPIKAAIGERKQTFEDYLEEQIQLE   350
 351  EQELKQKQLKEAEGPLPIKAKPKQPFLKRGEGLARFTNAKSKFQKGKESK   400
 401  LVTNQSTSEDQPLFKMDRQQLQRKTALKNKELCADNPILKKDSKARTKSG   450
 451  SVTLSQKPKMLKCSNRKSLSPSGLKIQTGKKCDGQFRDQIKFEKKVTSNN   500
 501  KENVPECPKPCDTGCTGWNKTQGKDRLPLSTGPASRLAAKSPIRETMKES   550
 551  ESSLDVSLQKKLETWEREKEKENLELDEFLFLEQAADEISFSSNSSFVLK   600
 601  ILERDQQICKGHRMSSTPVKAVPQKTNPADPISHCNRSEDLDHTAREKES   650
 651  ECEVAPKQLHSLSSADELREQPCKIRKAVQKSTSENQTEWNARDDEGVPN   700
 701  SDSSTNSEEQLDVTIKPSTEDRERGISSREDSPQVCDDKGPFKDTRTQED   750
 751  KRRDVDLDLSDKDYSSDESSMESIKHKVSEPSRSSSLSMSKMDFDDERTW   800
 801  TDLEENLCNHDVVLGNESTYGTPQTCYPNNEIGILDKTIKRKIAPVKRGE   850
 851  DLSKSRRSRSPPTSELMMKFFPSLKPKPKSDSHLGNEPKLNINQDQPPGD   900
 901  NARSQVLREKIIELETEIEKFKAENASLAKLRIERESALEKLRKEIADFE   950
 951  QQKAKELARIEEFKKEEMRKLQKERKVFEKYTTAARTFPDKKEREEIQTL  1000
1001  KQQIADLREDLKRKETKWSSTHSRLRSQIEMLVRENTDLREEIKVMERFR  1050
1051  LDAWKRAEAIESSLEVEKKDKLANTXVRFQNSQISSGTQVEKYKKNYLPM  1100
1101  QGNPPRRSKSAPPRDLGSLDKGQAASPREPPEPLNFPDPEYKEEEDQDIQ  1150
1151  GEISHPDGKVEKVYKNGCRVILFPNGTRKEVSADGKTITVTFFNGDVKQV  1200
1201  MPDQRVIYYYAAAQTTHTTYPEGLEVLHFSSGQIEKHYPDGRKEITFPDQ  1250
1251  TVKNLFPDGQEESIFPDGTTVRVQRDGNKLIEFNNGQRELHTAQFKRREY  1300
1301  PDGTVKTVYANGHQETKYRSGRIRVKDKEGNVLMDTEL              1338

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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