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).

2009

Screening for inhibitors of low-affinity epigenetic peptide-protein interactions: an AlphaScreen-based assay for antagonists of methyl-lysine binding proteins.

Wigle TJ, Herold JM, Senisterra GA, Vedadi M, Kireev DB, Arrowsmith CH, Frye SV, Janzen WP

J Biomol Screen. 2009-12-11 . 15(1):62-71 .doi: 10.1177/1087057109352902

PMID: 20008125

A survey of proteins encoded by non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms reveals a significant fraction with altered stability and activity.

Allali-Hassani A, Wasney GA, Chau I, Hong BS, Senisterra G, Loppnau P, Shi Z, Moult J, Edwards AM, Arrowsmith CH, Park HW, Schapira M, Vedadi M

Biochem. J.. 2009-11-15 . 424(1):15-26 .doi: 10.1042/BJ20090723

PMID: 19702579

Ring1B contains a ubiquitin-like docking module for interaction with Cbx proteins.

Bezsonova I, Walker JR, Bacik JP, Duan S, Dhe-Paganon S, Arrowsmith CH

Biochemistry. 2009-11-10 . 48(44):10542-8 .doi: 10.1021/bi901131u

PMID: 19791798

Methylation-state-specific recognition of histones by the MBT repeat protein L3MBTL2.

Guo Y, Nady N, Qi C, Allali-Hassani A, Zhu H, Pan P, Adams-Cioaba MA, Amaya MF, Dong A, Vedadi M, Schapira M, Read RJ, Arrowsmith CH, Min J

Nucleic Acids Res.. 2009-2-20 . 37(7):2204-10 .doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp086

PMID: 19233876

2008

Structural basis for recognition of hemi-methylated DNA by the SRA domain of human UHRF1.

Avvakumov GV, Walker JR, Xue S, Li Y, Duan S, Bronner C, Arrowsmith CH, Dhe-Paganon S

Nature. 2008-10-9 . 455(7214):822-5 .doi: 10.1038/nature07273

PMID: 18772889

A SPOT on the chromatin landscape? Histone peptide arrays as a tool for epigenetic research.

Nady N, Min J, Kareta MS, Chédin F, Arrowsmith CH

Trends Biochem. Sci.. 2008-6-4 . 33(7):305-13 .doi: 10.1016/j.tibs.2008.04.014

PMID: 18538573

Human HDAC7 harbors a class IIa histone deacetylase-specific zinc binding motif and cryptic deacetylase activity.

Schuetz A, Min J, Allali-Hassani A, Schapira M, Shuen M, Loppnau P, Mazitschek R, Kwiatkowski NP, Lewis TA, Maglathin RL, McLean TH, Bochkarev A, Plotnikov AN, Vedadi M, Arrowsmith CH

J. Biol. Chem.. 2008-4-25 . 283(17):11355-63 .doi: 10.1074/jbc.M707362200

PMID: 18285338

Structural genomics and drug discovery: all in the family.

Weigelt J, McBroom-Cerajewski LD, Schapira M, Zhao Y, Arrowsmith CH, Arrowmsmith CH

Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2008-3-7 . 12(1):32-9 .doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.01.045

PMID: 18282486

Protein production and purification.

Gräslund S, Nordlund P, Weigelt J, Hallberg BM, Bray J, Gileadi O, Knapp S, Oppermann U, Arrowsmith C, Hui R, Ming J, dhe-Paganon S, Park HW, Savchenko A, Yee A, Edwards A, Vincentelli R, Cambillau C, Kim R, Kim SH, Rao Z, Shi Y, Terwilliger TC, Kim CY, Hung LW, Waldo GS, Peleg Y, Albeck S, Unger T, Dym O, Prilusky J, Sussman JL, Stevens RC, Lesley SA, Wilson IA, Joachimiak A, Collart F, Dementieva I, Donnelly MI, Eschenfeldt WH, Kim Y, Stols L, Wu R, Zhou M, Burley SK, Emtage JS, Sauder JM, Thompson D, Bain K, Luz J, Gheyi T, Zhang F, Atwell S, Almo SC, Bonanno JB, Fiser A, Swaminathan S, Studier FW, Chance MR, Sali A, Acton TB, Xiao R, Zhao L, Ma LC, Hunt JF, Tong L, Cunningham K, Inouye M, Anderson S, Janjua H, Shastry R, Ho CK, Wang D, Wang H, Jiang M, Montelione GT, Stuart DI, Owens RJ, Daenke S, Schütz A, Heinemann U, Yokoyama S, Büssow K, Gunsalus KC

Nat. Methods. 2008-2-1 . 5(2):135-46 .doi: 10.1038/nmeth.f.202

PMID: 18235434

2007

L3MBTL1 recognition of mono- and dimethylated histones.

Min J, Allali-Hassani A, Nady N, Qi C, Ouyang H, Liu Y, MacKenzie F, Vedadi M, Arrowsmith CH

Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol.. 2007-11-18 . 14(12):1229-30 .doi: 10.1038/nsmb1340

PMID: 18026117