Prediction of Apoptosis Proteins Subcellular Location Using Evolutionary Profiles and Motifs Information
Apoptosis proteins are very important for regulating the balance between cell proliferation and death. Because the function of apoptosis protein is closely related to its subcellular location, it is desirable to explore their function by predicting the subcellular location of apoptosis protein. In this paper, based on evolutionary profiles and motifs information of protein sequences, an approach for predicting apoptosis proteins subcellular location is presented by using support vector machine (SVM). When the method is applied to three data sets (98 apoptosis proteins dataset, 225 apoptosis proteins dataset and 317 apoptosis proteins dataset), the overall accuracies of our method on the three data sets reach 95.9%, 86.7% and 91.8% in the jackknife test, respectively. The higher predictive success rates indicate that the proposed method is very useful for apoptosis proteins subcellular localization.