Cheryl H. Arrowsmith

Cheryl H. Arrowsmith

SGC Toronto

Arrowsmith

Biography

Cheryl Arrowsmith is a Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Professor in the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, and the Chief Scientist of the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) at the University of Toronto.  Her research focuses on the structural and chemical biology of chromatin and epigenetic regulatory factors especially as relates to cancer and drug discovery. In partnership with major pharmaceutical companies, she leads the SGC’s international open science program that is developing and distributing unencumbered Chemical Probes that support the discovery of new medicines. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and carried out postdoctoral research at Stanford University, and was co-founder of Affinium Pharmaceuticals, which developed a new medicine for multidrug resistant bacteria. She has published over 300 research articles and was recognized by Clarivate Analytics as being among the worlds top 1% of highly cited scientists in 2018, 2019 and 2022. She was elected an AAAS Fellow (2015), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2020).

2018

The dual methyltransferase METTL13 targets N terminus and Lys55 of eEF1A and modulates codon-specific translation rates.

Jakobsson ME, Małecki JM, Halabelian L, Nilges BS, Pinto R, Kudithipudi S, Munk S, Davydova E, Zuhairi FR, Arrowsmith CH, Jeltsch A, Leidel SA, Olsen JV, Falnes PØ

Nat Commun. 2018-8-24 . 9(1):3411 .doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05646-y

PMID: 30143613

LLY-283, a Potent and Selective Inhibitor of Arginine Methyltransferase 5, PRMT5, with Antitumor Activity.

Bonday ZQ, Cortez GS, Grogan MJ, Antonysamy S, Weichert K, Bocchinfuso WP, Li F, Kennedy S, Li B, Mader MM, Arrowsmith CH, Brown PJ, Eram MS, Szewczyk MM, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Vedadi M, Guccione E, Campbell RM

ACS Med Chem Lett. 2018-7-12 . 9(7):612-617 .doi: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.8b00014

PMID: 30034588

Identification of Rpl29 as a major substrate of the lysine methyltransferase Set7/9.

Hamidi T, Singh AK, Veland N, Vemulapalli V, Chen J, Hardikar S, Bao J, Fry CJ, Yang V, Lee KA, Guo A, Arrowsmith CH, Bedford MT, Chen T

J. Biol. Chem.. 2018-6-29 . .doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA118.002890

PMID: 29959229

Mammary molecular portraits reveal lineage-specific features and progenitor cell vulnerabilities.

Casey AE, Sinha A, Singhania R, Livingstone J, Waterhouse P, Tharmapalan P, Cruickshank J, Shehata M, Drysdale E, Fang H, Kim H, Isserlin R, Bailey S, Medina T, Deblois G, Shiah YJ, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Hofer S, Bader G, Lupien M, Arrowsmith C, Knapp S, De Carvalho D, Berman H, Boutros PC, Kislinger T, Khokha R

J. Cell Biol.. 2018-6-19 . .doi: 10.1083/jcb.201804042

PMID: 29921600

DOT1L inhibition attenuates graft-versus-host disease by allogeneic T cells in adoptive immunotherapy models.

Kagoya Y, Nakatsugawa M, Saso K, Guo T, Anczurowski M, Wang CH, Butler MO, Arrowsmith CH, Hirano N

Nat Commun. 2018-5-15 . 9(1):1915 .doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04262-0

PMID: 29765028

Identification and Structure-Activity Relationship of HDAC6 Zinc-Finger Ubiquitin Binding Domain Inhibitors.

Ferreira de Freitas R, Harding RJ, Franzoni I, Ravichandran M, Mann MK, Ouyang H, Lautens M, Santhakumar V, Arrowsmith CH, Schapira M

J. Med. Chem.. 2018-5-9 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b00258

PMID: 29741882

Donated chemical probes for open science.

Müller S, Ackloo S, Arrowsmith CH, Bauser M, Baryza JL, Blagg J, Böttcher J, Bountra C, Brown PJ, Bunnage ME, Carter AJ, Damerell D, Dötsch V, Drewry DH, Edwards AM, Edwards J, Elkins JM, Fischer C, Frye SV, Gollner A, Grimshaw CE, IJzerman A, Hanke T, Hartung IV, Hitchcock S, Howe T, Hughes TV, Laufer S, Li VM, Liras S, Marsden BD, Matsui H, Mathias J, O'Hagan RC, Owen DR, Pande V, Rauh D, Rosenberg SH, Roth BL, Schneider NS, Scholten C, Singh Saikatendu K, Simeonov A, Takizawa M, Tse C, Thompson PR, Treiber DK, Viana AY, Wells CI, Willson TM, Zuercher WJ, Knapp S, Mueller-Fahrnow A

Elife. 2018-4-20 . 7: .doi: 10.7554/eLife.34311

PMID: 29676732

Discovery of Ubiquitin Deamidases in the Pathogenic Arsenal of Legionella pneumophila.

Valleau D, Quaile AT, Cui H, Xu X, Evdokimova E, Chang C, Cuff ME, Urbanus ML, Houliston S, Arrowsmith CH, Ensminger AW, Savchenko A

Cell Rep. 2018-4-10 . 23(2):568-583 .doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.03.060

PMID: 29642013

TP-064, a potent and selective small molecule inhibitor of PRMT4 for multiple myeloma.

Nakayama K, Szewczyk MM, Dela Sena C, Wu H, Dong A, Zeng H, Li F, de Freitas RF, Eram MS, Schapira M, Baba Y, Kunitomo M, Cary DR, Tawada M, Ohashi A, Imaeda Y, Saikatendu KS, Grimshaw CE, Vedadi M, Arrowsmith CH, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Kiba A, Tomita D, Brown PJ

Oncotarget. 2018-4-6 . 9(26):18480-18493 .doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.24883

PMID: 29719619

Discovery of Small-Molecule Antagonists of the H3K9me3 Binding to UHRF1 Tandem Tudor Domain.

Senisterra G, Zhu HY, Luo X, Zhang H, Xun G, Lu C, Xiao W, Hajian T, Loppnau P, Chau I, Li F, Allali-Hassani A, Atadja P, Oyang C, Li E, Brown PJ, Arrowsmith CH, Zhao K, Yu Z, Vedadi M

SLAS Discov. 2018-3-1 . 2472555218766278 .doi: 10.1177/2472555218766278

PMID: 29562800