SBC logo Authors: Amine Heddad, Andrea Krings, Markus Brameier and Bob MacCallum, Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Stockholm University, Sweden.

NucPred

Fetching Q63259 from www.uniprot.org...

The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.51 (see score help below)

   1  MRRPRRPGGPAGCGGSEGSGGLRLLVCLLLLSGRPGGCSAISAHGCLFDR    50
51 RLCSHLEVCIQDGLFGQCQAGVGQARPLLQVTSPVLQRLQGVLRQLMSQG 100
101 LSWHDDLTQYVISQEMERIPRLRPPEPHPRDRSGSVPRRAGPAGELLSQG 150
151 NPTGSSPAVQGLSRPPGDGNGAGVGSPLSSLQAELLPPLLEHLLMPPQPP 200
201 HPSLTYEPALLQPYLFQQFGSRDGSRGSESASGVVGHLAKAEDPVLFSRS 250
251 LSKAILGTHSGHSFGDLTGPSPAQLFQDSGLLYMAQELPVPGRARAPRLP 300
301 EEGGSSRAEDSSEGHEEEVLGGHGEKSPPQAVQADVSLQRLAAVLAGYGV 350
351 ELRQLTPEQLSTLLTLLQLLPKGTGRHLGGAVNGGADVKKTIEEQMQRGD 400
401 TADARPPTPLLPGHPTASSTSIKVRQVLSPGFPEPPKTSSPLGISAVLLE 450
451 KKSPLGQSQPTVVGQPSARPSAEEYGYIVTDQKPLSLVAGVKLLEILAEH 500
501 VHMTSGSFINISVVGPAVTFRIRHNEQNLSLADVTQQAGLVKSELEAQTG 550
551 LQILQTGVGQREESAAVLPRQAHGISPMRSLLLTLVALAGVAGLLVALAV 600
601 ALCMRHHSKQRDKERLAALGPEGAHGDTTFEYQDLCRQHMATKSLFNRAE 650
651 GQPEPSRVSSVSSQFSDAAQASPSSHSSTPSWCEEPAQANMDISTGHMIL 700
701 AYMEDHLRNRDRLAKEWQALCAYQAEPNTCATAQGEGNIKKNRHPDFLPY 750
751 DHARIKLKVESSPSRSDYINASPIIEHDPRMPAYIATQGPLSHTIADFWQ 800
801 MVWESGCTVIVMLTPLVEDGVKQCDRYWPDEGSSLYHVYEVNLVSEHIWC 850
851 EDFLVRSFYLKNVQTQETRTLTQFHFLSWPAEGTPASTRPLLDFRRKVNK 900
901 CYRGRSCPIIVHCSDGAGRTGTYILIDMVLNRMAKGVKEIDIAATLEHVR 950
951 DQRPGLVRSKDQFEFALTAVAEEVNAILKALPQ 983

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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