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Existing deep learning methods often fail to accurately model the 3D arrangement of this ternary structure or overlook the critical background information provided by sequences, which is essential for accurate degradation predictions. Herein, we introduce SE(3)-PROTACs, a PROTAC degradation prediction model designed specifically using a geometric deep learning architecture. An SE(3)-equivariant transformer encodes PROTAC substructures\u2014the warhead, linker, and E3 ligand\u2014as molecular graphs invariant to translation and rotation while retaining geometrical features relevant to chemistry. Pretrained evolutionary scale modeling (ESM) embeddings provide functional and structural context to target proteins and E3 ligases directly from sequences, thus bypassing the limitations inherent in incomplete structural data. A Pairwise Interaction Mechanism computes all-pairs compatibility scores between target and E3 ligase residue positions conditioned on the PROTAC scaffold, using mean-pooled sigmoid weighting to reweight each protein representation before classification. A benchmark dataset of 1979 curated PROTAC samples sourced from PROTAC-DB was used for model development and evaluation. SE(3)-PROTACs achieved a test accuracy of 80.81% on a held-out random-split test set, with consistent performance across the cluster-split (65.62%) and temporal-split (64.08%) evaluations. 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