1. Introduction

2. ePSORTdb

3. cPSORTdb

4. Using PSORTdb

5. ePSORTdb Fields

6. cPSORTdb Fields

7. Bacterial cell envelopes and cell structures

ePSORTdb Fields

The following table lists all available ePSORTdb fields. Default fields displayed in results pages are in bold. Numerical fields are followed by a #.

Field name	Description
Swiss-Prot ID	Swiss-Prot primary accession number of the protein. Most of the experimentally derived data use a Swiss-Prot ID
RefSeq Accession	Several of the proteins use a RefSeq accession as an identifier
Other ID	Some of the proteins use identifiers from other databanks: EMBL, DDBJ, GenBank, PIR or PDB
Protein name	The name of the protein
Alternate protein name	Alternative names of the protein
Gene name	The name of the gene
Organism	Genus and species of the protein source organism
Taxonomy ID #	NCBI taxonomy identifier of the source organism
Gram stain	Gram classification of the source organism
Amino acid sequence	Amino acid sequence of the protein
Sequence length	Number of amino acids in the protein sequence
Experimental (terse)	Experimentally verified subcellular localization (terse format)*
Experimental SCL (verbose)	Experimentally verified subcellular localization (verbose format)**
GO Accession ID	Gene Ontology (GO) accession identifier
GO Accession Definition	Gene Ontology (GO) accession definition
Reference title	Title of literature reference books
ISBN number reference	ISBN identifier of literature reference books
WWW reference	Internet address of www references
RefSummary	Comments pertaining to literature references
PMID	Concatenation of all reference fields (PubMed ID, title, ISBN number, WWW and comments)

*: strict SCL terminology as returned by PSORTb: Gram-negative: Cytoplasmic, CytoplasmicMembrane, Periplasmic, OuterMembrane and Extracellular Gram-positive: Cytoplasmic, CytoplasmicMembrane, Cellwall and Extracellular
**: e.g. Cell wall surface exposed (LPxTG motif) protein
#: numerical field