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. 2008 May 14;3(5):e2161. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002161

Table 1. Criteria for the prediction of a dual-targeted mitochondrial proteome.

Protein localization Database type Methodology Reference
1st location: Mitochondria Reference set MitoP2 Single gene study http://www.mitop.de
1st location: Mitochondria MitoP2 MitoP2 SVM (support vector machine) MitoP2 SVM >0.5 http://www.mitop.de
1st location: Mitochondria Simple evaluation Mitochondrial proteomics Mitochondria purification +2D PAGE / Mass Spectrometry Sickmann et al 2003
Subcellular localization screens Chromosomally GFP-tagged Proteins Huh et al 2003
Transposon-Insertion Phenotypes, Localization and Expression (TRIPLE) Kumar et al 2002
Null mutant phenotype Pet mutants Dimmer KS et al 2002
In-Silico predictions MTS prediction – MitoProtII >0.7 http://ihg.gsf.de/ihg/mitoprot.html
Homology to the prokaryotic ortholog starts after 10–80 amino acids blast
2nd location Subcellular localization screens Chromosomally GFP-tagged Proteins Huh et al 2003
Transposon-Insertion Phenotypes, Localization and Expression (TRIPLE) Kumar et al 2002
In-Silico predictions Peroxisome targeting sequence prediction – PTS1 predictor http://mendel.imp.univie.ac.at/mendeljsp/sat/pts1/PTS1predictor.jsp
ER signal peptide prediction - TargetP http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/