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).

2016

An Integrative Proteomic Approach Identifies Novel Cellular SMYD2 Substrates.

Ahmed H, Duan S, Arrowsmith CH, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Schapira M

J. Proteome Res.. 2016-5-10 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00220

PMID: 27163177

PR Domain-Containing Protein 7 (PRDM7) is a Histone 3 Lysine 4 Trimethyltransferase.

Blazer LL, Lima-Fernandes E, Gibson E, Eram MS, Loppnau P, Arrowsmith CH, Schapira M, Vedadi M

J. Biol. Chem.. 2016-4-29 . .doi: 10.1074/jbc.M116.721472

PMID: 27129774

Discovery and Characterization of a Highly Potent and Selective Aminopyrazoline-Based in vivo Probe (BAY-598) for the Protein Lysine Methyltransferase SMYD2.

Eggert E, Hillig RC, Köhr S, Stöckigt D, Weiske J, Barak N, Mowat J, Brumby T, Christ CD, Ter Laak A, Lang T, Fernández-Montalván AE, Badock V, Weinmann H, Hartung IV, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Szewczyk M, Kennedy S, Li F, Vedadi M, Brown PJ, Santhakumar V, Arrowsmith CH, Stellfeld T, Stresemann C

J. Med. Chem.. 2016-4-13 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b01890

PMID: 27075367

SETD7 Controls Intestinal Regeneration and Tumorigenesis by Regulating Wnt/β-Catenin and Hippo/YAP Signaling.

Oudhoff MJ, Braam MJ, Freeman SA, Wong D, Rattray DG, Wang J, Antignano F, Snyder K, Refaeli I, Hughes MR, McNagny KM, Gold MR, Arrowsmith CH, Sato T, Rossi FM, Tatlock JH, Owen DR, Brown PJ, Zaph C

Dev. Cell. 2016-4-4 . 37(1):47-57 .doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.03.002

PMID: 27046831

Structure-Based Optimization of a Small Molecule Antagonist of the Interaction Between WD Repeat-Containing Protein 5 (WDR5) and Mixed-Lineage Leukemia 1 (MLL1).

Getlik M, Smil D, Zepeda-Velázquez C, Bolshan Y, Poda G, Wu H, Dong A, Kuznetsova E, Marcellus R, Senisterra G, Dombrovski L, Hajian T, Kiyota T, Schapira M, Arrowsmith CH, Brown PJ, Vedadi M, Al-Awar R

J. Med. Chem.. 2016-3-9 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b01630

PMID: 26958703

Chemical Biology Approaches for Characterization of Epigenetic Regulators.

Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Szewczyk MM, Prinos P, Lima-Fernandes E, Ackloo S, Arrowsmith CH

Meth. Enzymol.. 2016-2-16 . 574:79-103 .doi: 10.1016/bs.mie.2016.01.011

PMID: 27423858

Discovery of a Potent Class I Protein Arginine Methyltransferase Fragment Inhibitor.

Ferreira de Freitas R, Eram MS, Szewczyk MM, Steuber H, Smil D, Wu H, Li F, Senisterra G, Dong A, Brown PJ, Hitchcock M, Moosmayer D, Stegmann CM, Egner U, Arrowsmith C, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Vedadi M, Schapira M

J. Med. Chem.. 2016-1-29 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b01772

PMID: 26824386

A cellular chemical probe targeting the chromodomains of Polycomb repressive complex 1.

Stuckey JI, Dickson BM, Cheng N, Liu Y, Norris JL, Cholensky SH, Tempel W, Qin S, Huber KG, Sagum C, Black K, Li F, Huang XP, Roth BL, Baughman BM, Senisterra G, Pattenden SG, Vedadi M, Brown PJ, Bedford MT, Min J, Arrowsmith CH, James LI, Frye SV

Nat. Chem. Biol.. 2016-1-25 . .doi: 10.1038/nchembio.2007

PMID: 26807715

2015

A Radioactivity-Based Assay for Screening Human m6A-RNA Methyltransferase, METTL3-METTL14 Complex, and Demethylase ALKBH5.

Li F, Kennedy S, Hajian T, Gibson E, Seitova A, Xu C, Arrowsmith CH, Vedadi M

J Biomol Screen. 2015-12-23 . .doi: 10.1177/1087057115623264

PMID: 26701100

MLL5 Orchestrates a Cancer Self-Renewal State by Repressing the Histone Variant H3.3 and Globally Reorganizing Chromatin.

Gallo M, Coutinho FJ, Vanner RJ, Gayden T, Mack SC, Murison A, Remke M, Li R, Takayama N, Desai K, Lee L, Lan X, Park NI, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Smil D, Sturm D, Kushida MM, Head R, Cusimano MD, Bernstein M, Clarke ID, Dick JE, Pfister SM, Rich JN, Arrowsmith CH, Taylor MD, Jabado N, Bazett-Jones DP, Lupien M, Dirks PB

Cancer Cell. 2015-11-25 . .doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2015.10.005

PMID: 26626085