Tutorial: Exploring Human Nucleolar Protein Orthologs in FuNGI

A proteome-level overview of how human nucleolar proteins are represented across fungal proteomes in FuNGI.

Exploring fungal orthologs with a human nucleolar proteins
Reference framework

This page expands the yeast complex-based utility demonstration by using a broader human nucleolar protein set (n = 94) curated from The Human Protein Atlas. Rather than focusing on a complex, this utility page asks a complementary question: how widely are human nucleolar proteins represented as fungal orthologs in FuNGI, and how often do those orthologs show predicted NoLS/NLS support?

It first provides a global proteome-level overview, then allows in-depth exploration of one selected fungal proteome and the fungal orthologs corresponding to 94 human nucleolar proteins.

Interpretation for this page.

FuNGI catalogs only proteins with at least one predicted NoLS. Therefore, even if an ortholog detected in a fungal proteome, it may not be displayed in the database unless it contains predicted NoLSs.


Ortholog-mapped references
43 of 94
Human nucleolar proteins with at least one detected fungal ortholog
Fungal proteomes with orthologs
756 of 769
Fungal proteomes in which at least one ortholog was detected
Mean forward identity
41.3%
Average forward BLAST percent identity of detected fungal orthologs
Mean forward coverage
78.7%
Average forward query coverage of detected fungal orthologs
Proteome-level overview
HPA ortholog scatter plot
Reading the scatter plot

Each point represents one fungal proteome. The x-axis is the proportion of detected orthologs containing predicted NLS, and the y-axis is the proportion of detected orthologs containing predicted NoLS.

Point color represents the mean FuNGI confidence score of detected orthologs.

What the plot shows

At the proteome level, substantial proportions of fungal orthologs derived from the 94 human nucleolar proteins contain predicted NoLSs and NLSs and are consistently assigned medium-to-high confidence scores in FuNGI.

x-axis: NLS+ ratio y-axis: NoLS+ ratio color: mean confidence

Mean NoLS ratio
60.88%
Across fungal proteomes
Mean NLS ratio
65.63%
Across fungal proteomes
Mean confidence score
11.95 [Medium]
Among detected orthologs with FuNGI support
Fungal orthologs of the selected proteome
Selected proteome
Aspergillus fumigatus (strain ATCC MYA-4609 / CBS 101355 / FGSC A1100 / Af293)
UP000002530
Detected orthologs
18
out of 43 reference proteins
Orthologs with predicted NoLS
15
83.33% of detected orthologs
Orthologs with predicted NLS
13
72.22% of detected orthologs
Query (Human Protein) Subject (Fungal Ortholog)
Reference protein UniProt Ortholog Gene name # NoLS # NLS PSORT Confidence RBH UniProt
sp|O15213|WDR46_HUMAN O15213 Q4X0N3 AFUA_2G12890 2 1 cyto Medium (11.7) F: 43.137 / 74
R: 41.616 / 91
UniProt
sp|O15381|NVL_HUMAN O15381 Q4WTI2 AFUA_1G09210 1 0 nucl Low (9.6) F: 50.081 / 72
R: 50.081 / 75
UniProt
sp|Q12788|TBL3_HUMAN Q12788 Q4WP01 AFUA_4G07540 1 0 mito Low (6.9) F: 29.245 / 96
R: 29.344 / 96
UniProt
sp|Q13206|DDX10_HUMAN Q13206 Q4WM60 dbp4 5 3 nucl High (24) F: 55.761 / 55
R: 56.745 / 59
UniProt
sp|Q15397|PUM3_HUMAN Q15397 Q4WT60 AFUA_1G10440 1 2 nucl High (15.1) F: 33.259 / 65
R: 32.644 / 61
UniProt
sp|Q5C9Z4|NOM1_HUMAN Q5C9Z4 Q4WIG0 AFUA_2G01980 4 5 nucl High (21.4) F: 30.755 / 57
R: 30.991 / 64
UniProt
sp|Q96GQ7|DDX27_HUMAN Q96GQ7 Q4WRV2 drs1 4 3 nucl High (22.4) F: 45.397 / 62
R: 46.085 / 54
UniProt
sp|Q9BRU9|UTP23_HUMAN Q9BRU9 Q4WKF9 AFUA_1G02610 3 3 mito, mito_nucl High (20.2) F: 25.632 / 93
R: 25.66 / 80
UniProt
sp|Q9BSC4|NOL10_HUMAN Q9BSC4 Q4WHN4 AFUA_2G04780 3 1 nucl High (19.8) F: 39.9 / 77
R: 40.271 / 81
UniProt
sp|Q9H0S4|DDX47_HUMAN Q9H0S4 Q4WJE9 rrp3 1 1 nucl Medium (14.4) F: 63.371 / 95
R: 63.371 / 94
UniProt
sp|Q9H9A6|LRC40_HUMAN Q9H9A6 Q4W9M1 AFUA_4G04440 2 1 nucl Medium (14.7) F: 29.338 / 97
R: 29.449 / 62
UniProt
sp|Q9H9Y2|RPF1_HUMAN Q9H9Y2 Q4WTS5 AFUA_5G05930 1 1 nucl Medium (14.4) F: 40.254 / 60
R: 38.983 / 54
UniProt
sp|Q9NW13|RBM28_HUMAN Q9NW13 Q4WNM3 AFUA_4G06250 2 2 nucl High (18.4) F: 29.94 / 43
R: 39.623 / 85
UniProt
sp|Q9NZM5|NOP53_HUMAN Q9NZM5 Q4WHF9 AFUA_2G05550 3 3 nucl High (22.3) F: 30.088 / 91
R: 29.515 / 94
UniProt
sp|Q9UBZ9|REV1_HUMAN Q9UBZ9 Q4WMV6 AFUA_6G08570 1 2 cyto_nucl Medium (13.3) F: 28.418 / 80
R: 31.489 / 56
UniProt
What this utility shows

This utility demonstrates that FuNGI can be explored not only through well-characterized complexes, but also through a broader cross-species reference proteins.

By starting from 94 human nucleolar proteins and identifying their fungal orthologs, users can explore, within a fungal proteome of interest, how strongly individual orthologs exhibit predicted nucleolar localization signals and are prioritized by FuNGI’s integrated prediction framework.

Together with the yeast complex-based demo, this page shows that FuNGI captures a substantial fraction of conserved nucleolar protein orthologs across fungal proteomes, suggesting its utility as a prioritization framework for identifying strongly supported nucleolar localization signals.