ePSORTdb

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ePSORTdb is a dataset of proteins whose subcellular localization (SCL) proteins has been verified by laboratory experimentation. This dataset was used to train PSORTb, our automated SCL predictor for bacterial proteins, and is currently the largest dataset of its kind available to date for bacteria. Localizations were manually assigned to each protein in the dataset by searching the literature (through the PubMed database or other literature sources, such as microbiology textbooks) for experimentally derived information. For the new version, proteins with sub-category localizations (proteins targeted to specialized organelles or to the host cell) have an additional secondary localization annotation.

The following table describes the subcellular localization sites used to annotate proteins in ePSORTdb.


Gram Negative Gram Positive Archaea
Single SCL Cytoplasmic (C) Cytoplasmic (C) Cytoplasmic (C)

Cytoplasmic membrane (CM) Cytoplasmic membrane (CM) Cytoplasmic membrane (CM)

Periplasmic (P)



Cell wall (CW) Cell wall (CW)

Outer membrane (OM)


Extracellular (E) Extracellular (E) Extracellular (E)




Multiple SCL Cytoplasmic/Cytoplasmic membrane (C/CM) Cytoplasmic/Cytoplasmic membrane (C/CM) Cytoplasmic/Cytoplasmic membrane (C/CM)

Cytoplasmic membrane/Periplasmic (CM/P) Cytoplasmic membrane/Cell Wall (CM/CW)

Periplasmic/Outer membrane (P/OM)


Outer membrane/Extracellular (OM/E)





Secondary SCL Flagellar Flagellar

Fimbrial Fimbrial

Type III secretion apparatus (T3SS)


Host-associated Host-associated


Spore

Toga

S-layer S-layer

Outer Membrane Vesicle


As of September 2019, ePSORTdb includes over 11,600 proteins (8177 from Gram-negative bacteria, 2366 from Gram-positive bacteria, 800 archaeal proteins, as well as 121 proteins from Gram-negative bacteria without an outer membrane, 175 proteins found in Gram-positive bacteria with an outer membrane. This includes 53 proteins for Thermotogae which have an additional atypical outer membrane, and 293 proteins which have the new seoncdary localization of 'Outer Membrane Vesicle').

ePSORTdb can be searched using a variety of fields. The specific fields available in ePSORTdb are described here.

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