Predicting Gram-positive bacterial protein subcellular localization based on localization motifs

Yinxia Hu, Tonghua Li, Jiangming Sun, Shengnan Tang, Wenwei Xiong, Dapeng Li, Guanyan Chen, Peisheng Cong

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Abstract

The subcellular localization of proteins is closely related to their functions. In this work, we propose a novel approach based on localization motifs to improve the accuracy of predicting subcellular localization of Gram-positive bacterial proteins. Our approach performed well on a five-fold cross validation with an overall success rate of 89.5%. Besides, the overall success rate of an independent testing dataset was 97.7%. Moreover, our approach was tested using a new experimentally-determined set of Gram-positive bacteria proteins and achieved an overall success rate of 96.3%.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)135-140
JournalJournal of Theoretical Biology
Volume308
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012 Sept 7
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 20675057 , 20705024 ).

Free keywords

  • Motif finding
  • Position-specific frequencies encoding
  • Subcellular location prediction
  • Support vector machine (SVM)

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