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Background    N -terminal acetylation is one of the most common protein modifications in eukaryotes and occurs co-translationally when the  N -terminus of the nascent polypeptide is still attached to the ribosome. This modification has been shown to be involved in a wide range of biological phenomena such as protein half-life regulation, protein-protein and protein-membrane interactions, and protein subcellular localization. Thus, accurately predicting which proteins receive an acetyl group based on their protein sequence is expected to facilitate the functional study of this modification. As the occurrence of  N- terminal acetylation strongly depends on the context of protein sequences, attempts to understand the sequence determinants of  N -terminal acetylation were conducted initially by simply examining the  N -terminal sequences of many acetylated and unacetylated proteins and more recently by machine learning approaches. However, a complete understanding of the sequence determinants of this modification remains to be elucidated.    Results  We obtained curated  N- terminally acetylated and unacetylated sequences from the UniProt database and employed a decision tree algorithm to identify the sequence determinants of  N -terminal acetylation for proteins whose initiator methionine ( i Met) residues have been removed. The results suggested that the main determinants of  N -terminal acetylation are contained within the first five residues following  i Met and that the first and second positions are the most important discriminator for the occurrence of this phenomenon. The results also indicated the existence of position-specific preferred and inhibitory residues that determine the occurrence of  N -terminal acetylation. The developed predictor software, termed NT-AcPredictor, accurately predicted the  N -terminal acetylation, with an overall performance comparable or superior to those of preceding predictors incorporating machine learning algorithms.    Conclusion  Our machine learning approach based on a decision tree algorithm successfully provided several sequence determinants of  N -terminal acetylation for proteins lacking  i Met, some of which have not previously been described. Although these sequence determinants remain insufficient to comprehensively predict the occurrence of this modification, indicating that further work on this topic is still required, the developed predictor, NT-AcPredictor, can be used to predict  N -terminal acetylation with an accuracy of more than 80%.    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12859-017-1699-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Identification of the sequence determinants of protein N-terminal acetylation through a decision tree approach