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 0.40 (see score help below)

   1  MTGCPASSRRRGFGLFFFLRLHRLLLLFLVLRGTLANKLNVPQVLLPFGR    50
51 EPGRVPFLLEAQRGCYTWHSTHHDAVTVEPLYENGTLCSQKAVLIAESTQ 100
101 PIRLSSIILAREIVTDHELRCDVKVDVINSIEIVSRARELYVDDSPLELM 150
151 VRALDAEGNTFSSLAGMMFEWSIAQDNESAREELSSKIRILKYSEAEYAP 200
201 PIYIAEMEKEEKQGDVILVSGIRTGAAVVKVRIHEPFYKKVAAALIRLLV 250
251 LENIFLIPSHDIYLLVGTYIKYQVAKMVQGRVTEVKFPLEHYILELQDHR 300
301 VALNGSHSEKVAILDDKTAMVTASQLGQTNLVFVHKNVHMRSVSGLPNCT 350
351 IYVVEPGFLGFTVQPGNRWSLEVGQVYVITVDVFDKSSTKVYISDNLRIT 400
401 YDFPKEYFEEQLTTVNGSYHIVKALKDGVVVINASLTSIIYQNKDIQPIK 450
451 FLIKHQQEVKIYFPIMLTPKFLAFPHHPMGMLYRYKVQVEGGSGNFTWTS 500
501 SNETVVIVTTKGVVTAGQVRGNSTVLARDVQNPFRYGEIKIHVLKLNKME 550
551 LLPFHADVEIGQIIEIPIAMYHINKETKEAMAFTDCSHLSLDLNMDKQGV 600
601 FTLLKEGIQRPGPMHCSSTHIAAKSLGHTLVTVSVNECDKYLESSATFAA 650
651 YEPLKALNPVEVALVTWQSVKEMVFEGGPRPWILEPSRFFLELNAEKTEK 700
701 IGIAQVWLPSKRKQNQYIYRIQCLDLGEQVLTFRIGNHPGVLNPSPAVEV 750
751 LQVRFICAHPASMSVTPVYKVPAGAQPCPLPQHNKWLIPVSRLRDTVLEL 800
801 AVFDQHRRKFDNFSSLMLEWKSSNETLAHFEDYKSVEMVAKDDGSGQTRL 850
851 HGHQILKVHQIKGTVLIGVNFVGYSEKKSPKEISNLPRSVDVELLLVDDV 900
901 TVVPENATIYNHPDVKETFSLVEGSGYFLVNSSEQGVVTITYMEAESSVE 950
951 LVPLHPGFFTLEVYDLCLAFLGPATAHLRVSDIQELELDLIDKVEIDKTV 1000
1001 LVTVRVLGSSKRPFQNKYFRNMELKLQLASAIVTLTPMEQQDEYSENYIL 1050
1051 RATTIGQTTLVAIAKDKMGRKYTSTPRHIEVFPPFRLLPEKMTLIPMNMM 1100
1101 QVMSEGGPQPQSIVHFSISNQTVAVVNRRGQVTGKIVGTAVVHGTIQTVN 1150
1151 EDTGKVIVFSQDEVQIEVVQLRAVRILAAATRLITATKMPVYVMGVTSTQ 1200
1201 TPFSFSNANPGLTFHWSMSKRDVLDLVPRHSEVFLQLPVEHNFAMVVHTK 1250
1251 AAGRTSIKVTVHCMNSSSGQFEGNLLELSDEVQILVFEKLQLFYPECQPE 1300
1301 QILMPINSQLKLHTNREGAAFVSSRVLKCFPNSSVIEEDGEGLLKAGSIA 1350
1351 GTAVLEVTSIEPFGVNQTTITGVQVAPVTYLRVSSQPKLYTAQGRTLSAF 1400
1401 PLGMSLTFTVQFYNSIGEKFHTHNTQLYLALNRDDLLHIGPGNKNYTYMA 1450
1451 QAVNRGLTLVGLWDRRHPGMADYIPVAVEHAIEPDTKLTFVGDIICFSTH 1500
1501 LVSQHGEPGIWMISANNILQTDIVTGVGVARSPGTAMIFHDIPGVVKTYR 1550
1551 EVVVNASSRLMLSYDLKTYLTNTLNSTVFKLFITTGRNGVNLKGFCTPNQ 1600
1601 ALAITKVLLPATLMLCHVQFSNTLLDIPASKVFQVHSDFSMEKGVYVCII 1650
1651 KVRPQSEELLQALSVADTSVYGWATLVSERSKNGMQRILIPFIPAFYINQ 1700
1701 SELVLSHKQDIGEIRVLGVDRVLRKLEVISSSPVLVVAGHSHSPLTPGLA 1750
1751 IYSVRVVNFTSFQQMASPVFINISCVLTSQSEAVVVRAMKDKLGADHCED 1800
1801 SAILKRFTGSYQILLLTLFAVLASTASIFLAYNAFLNKIQTVPVVYVPTL 1850
1851 GTPQPGFFNSTSSPPHFMSLQPPLAQSRLQHWLWSIRH 1888

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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