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).

2008

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

In situ proteolysis for protein crystallization and structure determination.

Dong A, Xu X, Edwards AM, Chang C, Chruszcz M, Cuff M, Cymborowski M, Di Leo R, Egorova O, Evdokimova E, Filippova E, Gu J, Guthrie J, Ignatchenko A, Joachimiak A, Klostermann N, Kim Y, Korniyenko Y, Minor W, Que Q, Savchenko A, Skarina T, Tan K, Yakunin A, Yee A, Yim V, Zhang R, Zheng H, Akutsu M, Arrowsmith C, Avvakumov GV, Bochkarev A, Dahlgren LG, Dhe-Paganon S, Dimov S, Dombrovski L, Finerty P, Flodin S, Flores A, Gräslund S, Hammerström M, Herman MD, Hong BS, Hui R, Johansson I, Liu Y, Nilsson M, Nedyalkova L, Nordlund P, Nyman T, Min J, Ouyang H, Park HW, Qi C, Rabeh W, Shen L, Shen Y, Sukumard D, Tempel W, Tong Y, Tresagues L, Vedadi M, Walker JR, Weigelt J, Welin M, Wu H, Xiao T, Zeng H, Zhu H

Nat. Methods. 2007-11-4 . 4(12):1019-21 .doi: 10.1038/nmeth1118

PMID: 17982461

Structural and chemical profiling of the human cytosolic sulfotransferases.

Allali-Hassani A, Pan PW, Dombrovski L, Najmanovich R, Tempel W, Dong A, Loppnau P, Martin F, Thornton J, Thonton J, Edwards AM, Bochkarev A, Plotnikov AN, Vedadi M, Arrowsmith CH

PLoS Biol.. 2007-4-12 . 5(5):e97 .doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050097

PMID: 17425406

Analysis of binding site similarity, small-molecule similarity and experimental binding profiles in the human cytosolic sulfotransferase family.

Najmanovich RJ, Allali-Hassani A, Morris RJ, Dombrovsky L, Pan PW, Vedadi M, Plotnikov AN, Edwards A, Arrowsmith C, Thornton JM

Bioinformatics. 2007-1-15 . 23(2):e104-9 .doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl292

PMID: 17237076

2006

Genome-scale protein expression and structural biology of Plasmodium falciparum and related Apicomplexan organisms.

Vedadi M, Lew J, Artz J, Amani M, Zhao Y, Dong A, Wasney GA, Gao M, Hills T, Brokx S, Qiu W, Sharma S, Diassiti A, Alam Z, Melone M, Mulichak A, Wernimont A, Bray J, Loppnau P, Plotnikova O, Newberry K, Sundararajan E, Houston S, Walker J, Tempel W, Bochkarev A, Kozieradzki I, Edwards A, Arrowsmith C, Roos D, Kain K, Hui R

Mol. Biochem. Parasitol.. 2006-11-13 . 151(1):100-10 .doi: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2006.10.011

PMID: 17125854

Chemical screening methods to identify ligands that promote protein stability, protein crystallization, and structure determination.

Vedadi M, Niesen FH, Allali-Hassani A, Fedorov OY, Finerty PJ, Wasney GA, Yeung R, Arrowsmith C, Ball LJ, Berglund H, Hui R, Marsden BD, Nordlund P, Sundstrom M, Weigelt J, Edwards AM

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.. 2006-10-24 . 103(43):15835-40 .doi: 10.1073/pnas.0605224103

PMID: 17035505