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

NucPred

Fetching Q810B8 from www.uniprot.org...

The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.65 (see score help below)

   1  MFLWLFLIVSALISSTNADSDISVEICNVCSCVSVENVLYVNCEKVSVYR    50
  51  PNQLKPPWSNFYHLNFQNNFLNILYPNTFVNFSHAVSLHLGNNKLQNIEG   100
 101  GAFLGLSALKQLHLNNNELKILRADTFLGIENLEYLQADYNLIKYIERGA   150
 151  FNKLHKLKVLILNDNLISFLPDNIFRFASLTHLDIRGNRIQKLPYIGVLE   200
 201  HIGRVVELQLEDNPWNCSCDLLPLKAWLENMPYNIYIGEAICETPSDLYG   250
 251  RLLKETNKQELCPMGTGSDFDVRILPPSQQENGFTTPNGHTTQTTLHRLV   300
 301  TKPPKTTNPSKISGIVAGKALSNRNLSQIVSYQTRVPPLTPCPVPCFCKT   350
 351  HPSDLGLSVNCQEKNIQSMSELTPKPLNAKKLHVNGNNIKDVDISDFTEF   400
 401  EGLDLLHLGSNQITLIKGEVFHNLTNLRRLYLNGNQIERLYPEIFSGLHN   450
 451  LQYLYLEYNLIKEILAGTFDSMPNLQLLYLNNNLLKSLPVYIFSGAPLAR   500
 501  LNLRNNKFMYLPVSGVLDQLQSLTQIDLEGNPWDCTCDLVALKLWLEKLN   550
 551  DGIVVKELKCETPVQFANIELKSLKNEILCPKLLNKPSATFTSPAPAITF   600
 601  TTPLGPIRSPPGGPVPLSILILSILVVLILTVFVAFCLLVFVLRRNKKPT   650
 651  VKHEGLGNSECGSMQLQLRKHDHKTNKKDGLSTEAFIPQTIEQMSKSHTC   700
 701  GLKESETGFMFSDPPGQKVMMRNAADKDKDLLHVDTRKRLSTIDELDELF   750
 751  PSRDSNVFIQNFLESKKEYNSIGVSGFEIRYPEKQQDKKNKKSLIGGNHS   800
 801  KIVVEQRKSEYFELKAKLQSSPDYLQVLEEQTALNKI                837

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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