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).

2012

Epigenetic protein families: a new frontier for drug discovery.

Arrowsmith CH, Bountra C, Fish PV, Lee K, Schapira M

Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2012-4-13 . 11(5):384-400 .doi: 10.1038/nrd3674

PMID: 22498752

A human ubiquitin conjugating enzyme (E2)-HECT E3 ligase structure-function screen.

Sheng Y, Hong JH, Doherty R, Srikumar T, Shloush J, Avvakumov GV, Walker JR, Xue S, Neculai D, Wan JW, Kim SK, Arrowsmith CH, Raught B, Dhe-Paganon S

Mol. Cell Proteomics. 2012-4-10 . 11(8):329-41 .doi: 10.1074/mcp.O111.013706

PMID: 22496338

Histone recognition and large-scale structural analysis of the human bromodomain family.

Filippakopoulos P, Picaud S, Mangos M, Keates T, Lambert JP, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Felletar I, Volkmer R, Müller S, Pawson T, Gingras AC, Arrowsmith CH, Knapp S

Cell. 2012-3-30 . 149(1):214-31 .doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.02.013

PMID: 22464331

Protein aggregates are recruited to aggresome by histone deacetylase 6 via unanchored ubiquitin C termini.

Ouyang H, Ali YO, Ravichandran M, Dong A, Qiu W, MacKenzie F, Dhe-Paganon S, Arrowsmith CH, Zhai RG

J. Biol. Chem.. 2012-1-20 . 287(4):2317-27 .doi: 10.1074/jbc.M111.273730

PMID: 22069321

2011

Fluorescence-based methods for screening writers and readers of histone methyl marks.

Allali-Hassani A, Wasney GA, Siarheyeva A, Hajian T, Arrowsmith CH, Vedadi M

J Biomol Screen. 2011-10-4 . 17(1):71-84 .doi: 10.1177/1087057111422256

PMID: 21972038

Zn-binding AZUL domain of human ubiquitin protein ligase Ube3A.

Lemak A, Yee A, Bezsonova I, Dhe-Paganon S, Arrowsmith CH

J. Biomol. NMR. 2011-9-27 . 51(1-2):185-90 .doi: 10.1007/s10858-011-9552-y

PMID: 21947926

Optimization of cellular activity of G9a inhibitors 7-aminoalkoxy-quinazolines.

Liu F, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Allali-Hassani A, He Y, Herold JM, Chen X, Yates CM, Frye SV, Brown PJ, Huang J, Vedadi M, Arrowsmith CH, Jin J

J. Med. Chem.. 2011-9-8 . 54(17):6139-50 .doi: 10.1021/jm200903z

PMID: 21780790

A chemical probe selectively inhibits G9a and GLP methyltransferase activity in cells.

Vedadi M, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Liu F, Rival-Gervier S, Allali-Hassani A, Labrie V, Wigle TJ, Dimaggio PA, Wasney GA, Siarheyeva A, Dong A, Tempel W, Wang SC, Chen X, Chau I, Mangano TJ, Huang XP, Simpson CD, Pattenden SG, Norris JL, Kireev DB, Tripathy A, Edwards A, Roth BL, Janzen WP, Garcia BA, Petronis A, Ellis J, Brown PJ, Frye SV, Arrowsmith CH, Jin J

Nat. Chem. Biol.. 2011-7-10 . 7(8):566-74 .doi: 10.1038/nchembio.599

PMID: 21743462

Recognition of multivalent histone states associated with heterochromatin by UHRF1 protein.

Nady N, Lemak A, Walker JR, Avvakumov GV, Kareta MS, Achour M, Xue S, Duan S, Allali-Hassani A, Zuo X, Wang YX, Bronner C, Chédin F, Arrowsmith CH, Dhe-Paganon S

J. Biol. Chem.. 2011-7-8 . 286(27):24300-11 .doi: 10.1074/jbc.M111.234104

PMID: 21489993

Small-molecule ligands of methyl-lysine binding proteins.

Herold JM, Wigle TJ, Norris JL, Lam R, Korboukh VK, Gao C, Ingerman LA, Kireev DB, Senisterra G, Vedadi M, Tripathy A, Brown PJ, Arrowsmith CH, Jin J, Janzen WP, Frye SV

J. Med. Chem.. 2011-4-14 . 54(7):2504-11 .doi: 10.1021/jm200045v

PMID: 21417280