Matthieu Schapira

Matthieu Schapira

SGC Toronto

Schapira

Matthieu Schapira

MaRS Centre, South Tower, 101 College St., Suite 700, Toronto, ON, M5G 1L7, Canada

Affiliations

Biography

Matthieu Schapira, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UofT, and is the head of computational chemistry, protein bioinformatics, and data management at the SGC-Toronto. He leads the CACHE initiative for benchmarking computational ‘hit finding’. Dr. Schapira is a recognized authority in the structural chemistry of drug target classes such as chromatin regulators, ubiquitylation pathways and WDR proteins, and has created popular online informatics resources for these targets such as Chromohub, Ubihub and ChemBioPort. He is interested in novel strategies to expand and ML tools to exploit the accessible chemistry space. His trainees have gone on to become important innovators in AI-driven drug discovery at Toronto-born biotechs such as Atomwise and Cyclica.

Positions available

2021

Structure, mechanism and crystallographic fragment screening of the SARS-CoV-2 NSP13 helicase.

Newman JA, Douangamath A, Yadzani S, Yosaatmadja Y, Aimon A, Brandão-Neto J, Dunnett L, Gorrie-Stone T, Skyner R, Fearon D, Schapira M, von Delft F, Gileadi O

Nat Commun. 2021-8-11 . 12(1):4848 .doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25166-6

PMID: 34381037

Probing the SAM Binding Site of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp14 In Vitro Using SAM Competitive Inhibitors Guides Developing Selective Bisubstrate Inhibitors.

Devkota K, Schapira M, Perveen S, Khalili Yazdi A, Li F, Chau I, Ghiabi P, Hajian T, Loppnau P, Bolotokova A, Satchell KJF, Wang K, Li D, Liu J, Smil D, Luo M, Jin J, Fish PV, Brown PJ, Vedadi M

SLAS Discov. 2021-7-1 . 24725552211026261 .doi: 10.1177/24725552211026261

PMID: 34192965

Genetic Variability of the SARS-CoV-2 Pocketome.

Yazdani S, De Maio N, Ding Y, Shahani V, Goldman N, Schapira M

J Proteome Res. 2021-6-28 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.1c00206

PMID: 34180678

Protein arginine methylation: from enigmatic functions to therapeutic targeting.

Wu Q, Schapira M, Arrowsmith CH, Barsyte-Lovejoy D

Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2021-3-19 . .doi: 10.1038/s41573-021-00159-8

PMID: 33742187

Probing the SAM Binding Site of SARS-CoV-2 nsp14 in vitro Using SAM Competitive Inhibitors Guides Developing Selective bi-substrate Inhibitors.

Devkota K, Schapira M, Perveen S, Yazdi AK, Li F, Chau I, Ghiabi P, Hajian T, Loppnau P, Bolotokova A, Satchell KJF, Wang K, Li D, Liu J, Smil D, Luo M, Jin J, Fish PV, Brown PJ, Vedadi M

bioRxiv. 2021-2-19 . .doi: 10.1101/2021.02.19.424337

PMID: 33619486

A First-in-Class, Highly Selective and Cell-Active Allosteric Inhibitor of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 6.

Shen Y, Li F, Szewczyk MM, Halabelian L, Chau I, Eram MS, Dela Seña C, Park KS, Meng F, Chen H, Zeng H, McLeod D, Zepeda-Velázquez CA, Campbell RM, Mader MM, Watson BM, Schapira M, Arrowsmith CH, Al-Awar R, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Kaniskan HÜ, Brown PJ, Vedadi M, Jin J

J Med Chem. 2021-2-16 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c02160

PMID: 33591753

Discovery of Small-Molecule Antagonists of the PWWP Domain of NSD2.

Ferreira de Freitas R, Liu Y, Szewczyk MM, Mehta N, Li F, McLeod D, Zepeda-Velázquez C, Dilworth D, Hanley RP, Gibson E, Brown PJ, Al-Awar R, James LI, Arrowsmith CH, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Min J, Vedadi M, Schapira M, Allali-Hassani A

J Med Chem. 2021-2-1 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c01768

PMID: 33522809

2020

A novel allosteric modulator of the cannabinoid CB1 receptor ameliorates hyperdopaminergia endophenotypes in rodent models.

Mielnik CA, Sugamori KS, Finlay DB, Thorpe HHA, Schapira M, Sivananthan N, Li CK, Lam VM, Harrington S, Abdelrahman MH, Trembleau LA, McIntyre Burnham W, Khokhar JY, Salahpour A, Ramsey AJ, Glass M, Greig IR, Ross RA

Neuropsychopharmacology. 2020-10-8 . .doi: 10.1038/s41386-020-00876-5

PMID: 33036015

Ten simple rules for open human health research.

Bafeta A, Bobe J, Clucas J, Gonsalves PP, Gruson-Daniel C, Hudson KL, Klein A, Krishnakumar A, McCollister-Slipp A, Lindner AB, Misevic D, Naslund JA, Nebeker C, Nikolaidis A, Pasquetto I, Sanchez G, Schapira M, Scheininger T, Schoeller F, Sólon Heinsfeld A, Taddei F

PLoS Comput. Biol.. 2020-9-4 . 16(9):e1007846 .doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007846

PMID: 32881878