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NucPred

Fetching Q62799 from www.uniprot.org...

The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.52 (see score help below)

   1  MRATGTLQVLCFLLSLARGSEMGNSQAVCPGTLNGLSVTGDADNQYQTLY    50
51 KLYEKCEVVMGNLEIVLTGHNADLSFLQWIREVTGYVLVAMNEFSVLPLP 100
101 NLRVVRGTQVYDGKFAIFVMLNYNTNSSHALRQLKFTQLTEILSGGVYIE 150
151 KNDKLCHMDTIDWRDIVRVRGAEIVVKNNGANCPPCHEVCKGRCWGPGPD 200
201 DCQILTKTICAPQCNGRCFGPNPNQCCHDECAGGCSGPQDTDCFACRRFN 250
251 DSGACVPRCPEPLVYNKLTFQLEPNPHTKYQYGGVCVASCPHNFVVDQTF 300
301 CVRACPPDKMEVDKHGLKMCEPCGGLCPKACEGTGSGSRYQTVDSSNIDG 350
351 FVNCTKILGNLDFLITGLNVDPWHKIPALDPEKLNVFRTVREITGYLNIQ 400
401 SWPPHMHNFSVFSNLTTIGGRSLYNRGFSLLIMKNLNVTSLGFRSLKEIS 450
451 AGRVYISANQQLCYHHSLNWTRLLRGPSEERLDIKYDRPLGECLAEGKVC 500
501 DPLCSSGGCWGPGPGQCLSCRNYSREGVCVTHCNFLQGEPREFVHEAQCF 550
551 SCHPECLPMEGTSTCNGSGSDACARCAHFRDGPHCVNSCPHGILGAKGPI 600
601 YKYPDAQNECRPCHENCTQGCNGPELQDCLGQAEVLMSKPHLVIAVTVGL 650
651 AVILMILGGSFLYWRGRRIQNKRAMRRYLERGESIEPLDPSEKANKVLAR 700
701 IFKETELRKLKVLGSGVFGTVHKGIWIPEGESIKIPVCIKVIEDKSGRQS 750
751 FQAVTDHMLAVGSLDHAHIVRLLGLCPGSSLQLVTQYLPLGSLLDHVKQH 800
801 RETLGPQLLLNWGVQIAKGMYYLEEHSMVHRDLALRNVMLKSPSQVQVAD 850
851 FGVADLLPPDDKQLLHSEAKTPIKWMALESIHFGKYTHQSDVWSYGVTVW 900
901 ELMTFGAEPYAGLRLAEIPDLLEKGERLAQPQICTIDVYMVMVKCWMIDE 950
951 NIRPTFKELANEFTRMARDPPRYLVIKRASGPGTPPAAEPSVLTTKELQE 1000
1001 AELEPELDLDLDLEAEEEGLATSLGSALSLPTGTLTRPRGSQSLLSPSSG 1050
1051 YMPMNQSSLGEACLDSAVLGGREQFSRPISLHPIPRGRPASESSEGHVTG 1100
1101 SEAELQEKVSVCRSRSRSRSPRPRGDSAYHSQRHSLLTPVTPLSPPGLEE 1150
1151 EDGNGYVMPDTHLRGASSSREGTLSSVGLSSVLGTEEEDEDEEYEYMNRK 1200
1201 RRGSPPRPPRPGSLEELGYEYMDVGSDLSASLGSTQSCPLHPMAIVPSAG 1250
1251 TTPDEDYEYMNRRRGAGGAGGDYAAMGACPAAEQGYEEMRAFQGPGHHAP 1300
1301 HVRYARLKTLRSLEATDSAFDNPDYWHSRLFPKANAQRT 1339

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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