Targeted protein degradation (TPD) has rapidly emerged as a therapeutic modality to eliminate previously undruggable proteins through repurposing the cell’s endogenous protein degradation machinery. However, development of TPD compounds is largely driven by trial-and-error. We developed a machine learning model, MAPD (Model-based Analysis of Protein Degradability), to predict degradability from protein-intrinsic features that encompass post-translational modifications, protein stability, protein expression and protein-protein interactions. MAPD shows promising performance in predicting kinases that are degradable by TPD compounds and is likely generalizable to independent non-kinase proteins.

Here, we designed R package MAPD to make it quick and easy to:

  • Reproduce our MAPD model for benchmarking
  • Investigate protein features predictive of protein degradability
  • Extend the MAPD model by incorporating new protein degradability data and/or protein feature data

For more detail, please visit https://liulab-dfci.github.io/MAPD/.

Installation

Install this package via github using the devtools package.

> devtools::install_github('liulab-dfci/MAPD')

Citation

Wubing Zhang,

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