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E3Docker: a docking server for potential E3 binder discovery

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Kejia Yan
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Wangqiu He
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Mingwei Pang
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Xufeng Lu
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Zhou Chen
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Lianhua Piao
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Han Zhang
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Yu Wang
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Shan Chang
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Ren Kong *
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Targeted protein degradation (TPD) has emerged as a promising therapeutic strategy for modulating protein levels in cells. Proteolysis-targeting chimeras and molecular glues facilitate the formation of a complex between the protein of interest (POI) and a specific E3 ligase, leading to POI ubiquitination and subsequent degradation by the proteasome. Considering over 600 E3s in the human genome, it is of great potential to find novel E3 binders and recruit new E3 ligase for TPD related drug discovery. Here we introduce E3Docker, an online computational tool for E3 binder discovery. A total of 1075 Homo sapiens E3 ligases are collected from databases and literature, and 4474 three-dimensional structures of these E3 ligases, in either apo or complex forms, are integrated into the web server. The druggable pockets for each E3 ligase are defined by experimentally bound ligand from PDB or predicted by using DeepPocket. CoDock-Ligand is employed as docking engine for potential E3 binder estimation. With a user-friendly interface, E3Docker facilitates the generation of binding poses and affinity scores for compounds with over 1000 kinds of E3 ligases and may benefit for novel E3 binder discovery. The E3Docker server and tutorials are freely available at https://e3docker.schanglab.org.cn/.
Keywords:
UBIQUITIN LIGASE
PROTEIN
OPTIMIZATION
RESOURCE
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Nucleic Acids Research cover
Nucleic Acids Research
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13.1
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3.6W
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29.0W

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Tianjin Univ Tradit Chinese Med
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820
Papers: 249
Citations: 80
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primary biotechnol co ltd
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1
Papers: 1
Citations: 0
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Jiangsu Univ Technol
Scholars:
269
Papers: 119
Citations: 35
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