kpsort

 

Function

Predicts protein localization for PSORT

Description

kpsort predicts protein localization sites utilizing PSORT.

PSORT analyzes the input sequence by applying the stored rules for various sequence features of known protein sorting signals and reports the possiblity for the input protein to be localized at each candidate site with additional information.

kpsort utilizes PSORT WWW Server provided by Tokyo University. Original web-service is located at the following URL:

http://psort.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/form.html

This tools is a subset of Keio Bioinformatics Web Service (KBWS) package, which contains interfaces to bioinformatics web services through a proxy server at Keio University. kpsort is thus an interface of "runPsort" method included in KBWS SOAP service. This method can be alternatively accessed directly from programming languages as SOAP web service. Please refer to the KBWS online documentations http://soap.g-language.org/kbws/ for more information.

Usage


   Here is a sample session with kpsort

% kpsort
prediction protein localization sets for bacterial/plant sequences
Input protein sequence(s): swissprot:FOXP2_HUMAN
Output file [foxp2_human.kpsort]:
Jobid: kbws_1284690
***

 Nakai server 

Query Information

ORIGIN animal
BEGIN
>MYSEQ
 MMQESATETI SNSSMNQNGM STLSSQLDAG SRDGRSSGDT SSEVSTVELL
 HLQQQQALQA ARQLLLQQQT SGLKSPKSSD KQRPLQVPVS VAMMTPQVIT
 PQQMQQILQQ QVLSPQQLQA LLQQQQAVML QQQQLQEFYK KQQEQLHLQL
 LQQQQQQQQQ QQQQQQQQQQ QQQQQQQQQQ QQQQQQQQQQ QHPGKQAKEQ
 QQQQQQQQQL AAQQLVFQQQ LLQMQQLQQQ QHLLSLQRQG LISIPPGQAA
 LPVQSLPQAG LSPAEIQQLW KEVTGVHSME DNGIKHGGLD LTTNNSSSTT
 SSNTSKASPP ITHHSIVNGQ SSVLSARRDS SSHEETGASH TLYGHGVCKW
 PGCESICEDF GQFLKHLNNE HALDDRSTAQ CRVQMQVVQQ LEIQLSKERE
 RLQAMMTHLH MRPSEPKPSP KPLNLVSSVT MSKNMLETSP QSLPQTPTTP
 TAPVTPITQG PSVITPASVP NVGAIRRRHS DKYNIPMSSE IAPNYEFYKN
 ADVRPPFTYA TLIRQAIMES SDRQLTLNEI YSWFTRTFAY FRRNAATWKN
 AVRHNLSLHK CFVRVENVKG AVWTVDEVEY QKRRSQKITG SPTLVKNIPT
 SLGYGAALNA SLQAALAESS LPLLSNPGLI NNASSGLLQA VHEDLNGSLD
 HIDSNGNSSP GCSPQPHIHS IHVKEEPVIA EDEDCPMSLV TTANHSPELE
 DDREIEEEPL SEDLE


Result Information

PSORT --- Prediction of Protein Localization Sites
                                            version 6.4(WWW)
MYSEQ          715 Residues
Species classification: 4

*** Reasoning Step: 1

Preliminary Calculation of ALOM (threshold: 0.5)
     count: 0
McG: Examining signal sequence (McGeoch)
     Length  of  UR:   19
     Peak Value of UR:  -0.16
     Net Charge of CR: -2
     Discriminant Score:    -14.88
GvH: Examining signal sequence (von Heijne)
     Signal Score (-3.5): -2.15
     Possible cleavage site: 60
>>> Seems to have no N-terminal signal seq.
Amino Acid Composition of Predicted Mature Form:
   calculated from 1
ALOM new cnt: 0 ** thrshld changed to -2
Cleavable signal was detected in ALOM?: 0B
ALOM: finding transmembrane regions (Klein et al.)
     count: 0  value:   5.41  threshold: -2.0
     PERIPHERAL  Likelihood =  5.41
     modified ALOM score:  -1.98
( 3) or uncleavable?
Gavel: Examining the boundary of mitochondrial targeting seq.
      motif at: 3
     Uncleavable? Ipos set to: 13
Discrimination of mitochondrial target seq.: 
     negative (-1.91)

*** Reasoning Step: 2

KDEL   Count: 0
Checking apolar signal for intramitochondrial sorting
Mitochondrial matrix?  Score:  0.10
SKL motif (signal for peroxisomal protein): 
     pos: -1(715), count: 0   
Amino Acid Composition Tendency for Peroxisome:  -5.66
Peroxisomal proteins?   Status: negative
Amino Acid Composition tendency for lysosomal proteins
     score:  0.33  Status: notclr
Modified score for lysosome: 0.183
Checking the amount of Basic Residues (nucleus)
Checking the 4 residue pattern for Nuclear Targeting
     Found: pos: 475 (3) RRRH
Checking the 7 residue pattern for Nuclear Targeting
Checking the Robbins & Dingwall consensus (nucleus)
Checking the RNA binding motif (nucleus or cytoplasm)
nuc modified.   Score:  0.60
Nuclear Signal   Status: notclr ( 0.30)
Checking CaaX motif..
Checking N-myristoylation..
Checking CaaX motif..

----- Final Results -----

                          nucleus --- Certainty= 0.300(Affirmative) 
                 lysosome (lumen) --- Certainty= 0.183(Affirmative) 
       mitochondrial matrix space --- Certainty= 0.100(Affirmative) 
 endoplasmic reticulum (membrane) --- Certainty= 0.000(Not Clear) 


----- The End -----

Command line arguments

Qualifier Type Description Allowed values Default
Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers
[-seqall]
(Parameter 1)		 seqall Protein sequence(s) filename and optional format, or reference (input USA) Readable sequence(s) 2
[-outfile]
(Parameter 2)		 outfile Output file name Output file <*>.kpsort
Additional (Optional) qualifiers
-org string origin Any string  
-title string title Any string MYSEQ
Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers
(none)

Input file format

kpsort can use any amino acid sequence data that seqret can read.

Output file format

The output from kpsort is general PSORT output format.

Data files

None.

Notes

None.

References


   Nakai, K., and Kanehisa, M.,(1991) Expert system for predicting protein
      localization sites in gram-negative bacteria., Proteins, 11(2), 95-110.

Warnings

None.

Diagnostic Error Messages

None.

Exit status

It always exits with a status of 0.

Known bugs

None.

See also

Program name Description
seqret Reads and writes (returns) sequences

Author(s)

Kazuki Oshita (cory @ g-language.org) Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University 252-8520 Japan

History

2009 - Written by Kazuki Oshita

Target users

This program is intended to be used by everyone and everything, from naive users to embedded scripts.

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