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 0.77 (see score help below)

   1  MANSTGKAPPDERRKGLAFLDELRQFHHSRGSPFKKIPAVGGKELDLHGL    50
51 YTRVTTLGGFAKVSEKNQWGEIVEEFNFPRSCSNAAFALKQYYLRYLEKY 100
101 EKVHHFGEDDDEVPPGNPKPQLPIGAIPSSYNYQQHSVSDYLRQSYGLSM 150
151 DFNSPNDYNKLVLSLLSGLPNEVDFAINVCTLLSNESKHVMQLEKDPKII 200
201 TLLLANAGVFDDTLGSFSTVFGEEWKEKTDRDFVKFWKDIVDDNEVRDLI 250
251 SDRNKSHEGTSGEWIWESLFHPPRKLGINDIEGQRVLQIAVILRNLSFEE 300
301 GNVKLLAANRTCLRFLLLSAHSHFISLRQLGLDTLGNIAAELLLDPVDFK 350
351 TTHLMFHTVTKCLMSRDRFLKMRGMEILGNLCKAEDNGVLICEYVDQDSY 400
401 REIICHLTLPDVLLVISTLEVLYMLTEMGDVACTKIAKVEKSIDMLVCLV 450
451 SMDIQMFGPDALAAVKLIEHPSSSHQMLSEIRPQAIEQVQTQTHVASAPA 500
501 SRAVVAQHVAPPPGIVEIDSEKFACQWLNAHFEVNPDCSVSRAEMYSEYL 550
551 STCSKLARGGILTSTGFYKCLRTVFPNHTVKRVEDSSSNGQAHIHVVGVK 600
601 RRAIPLPIQMYYQQQPVSTSVVRVDSVPDVSPAPSPAGIPHGSQTIGNHF 650
651 QRTPVANQSSNLTATQMSFPVQGVHTVAQTVSRIPQNPSPHTHQQQNAPV 700
701 TVIQSKAPIPCEVVKATVIQNSIPQTGVPVSIAVGGGPPQSSVVQNHSTG 750
751 PQPVTVVNSQTLLHHPSVIPQQSPLHTVVPGQIPSGTPVTVIQQAVPQSH 800
801 MFGRVQNIPACTSTVSQGQQLITTSPQPVQTSSQQTSAGSQSQDTVIIAP 850
851 PQYVTTSASNIVSATSVQNFQVATGQMVTIAGVPSPQASRVGFQNIAPKP 900
901 LPSQQVSSTVVQQPIQQPQQPTQQSVVIVSQPAQQGQTYAPAIHQIVLAN 950
951 PAALPAGQTVQLTGQPNITPSSSPSPVPATNNQVPTAMSSSSTPQSQGPP 1000
1001 PTVSQMLSVKRQQQQQHSPAPPPQQVQVQVQQPQQVQMQVQPQQSNAGVG 1050
1051 QPASGESSLIKQLLLPKRGPSTPGGKLILPAPQIPPPNNARAPSPQVVYQ 1100
1101 VASNQAAGFGVQGQTPAQQLLVGQQNVQLVPSAMPPSGGVQTVPISNLQI 1150
1151 LPGPLISNSPATIFQGTSGNQVTITVVPNTSFAPATVSQGNATQLIAPAG 1200
1201 ITMSGTQTGVGLPVQTLPATQASPAGQSSCTTATPPFKGDKIICQKEEEA 1250
1251 KEATGLHVHERKIEVMENPSCRRGATNTSNGDTKENEMHVGSLLNGRKYS 1300
1301 DSSLPPSNSGKIQSETNQCSLISNGPSLELGENGASGKQNSEQIDMQDIK 1350
1351 SDLRKPLVNGICDFDKGDGSHLSKNIPNHKTSNHVGNGEISPMEPQGTLD 1400
1401 ITQQDTAKGDQLERISNGPVLTLGGSSVSSIQEASNAATQQFSGTDLLNG 1450
1451 PLASSLNSDVPQQRPSVVVSPHSTTSVIQGHQIIAVPDSGSKVSHSPALS 1500
1501 SDVRSTNGTAECKTVKRPAEDTDRETVAGIPNKVGVRIVTISDPNNAGCS 1550
1551 ATMVAVPAGADPSTVAKVAIESAVQQKQQHPPTYVQNVVPQNTPMPPSPA 1600
1601 VQVQGQPNSSQPSPFSGSSQPGDPMRKPGQNFMCLWQSCKKWFQTPSQVF 1650
1651 YHAATEHGGKDVYPGQCLWEGCEPFQRQRFSFITHLQDKHCSKDALLAGL 1700
1701 KQDEPGQAGSQKSSTKQPTVGGTSSTPRAQKAIVNHPSAALMALRRGSRN 1750
1751 LVFRDFTDEKEGPITKHIRLTAALILKNIGKYSECGRRLLKRHENNLSVL 1800
1801 AISNMEASSTLAKCLYELNFTVQSKEQEKDSEMLQ 1835

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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