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).

2022

PRMT5 regulates ATF4 transcript splicing and oxidative stress response.

Szewczyk MM, Luciani GM, Vu V, Murison A, Dilworth D, Barghout SH, Lupien M, Arrowsmith CH, Minden MD, Barsyte-Lovejoy D

Redox Biol. 2022-3-11 . 51:102282 .doi: 10.1016/j.redox.2022.102282

PMID: 35305370

The MYC oncoprotein directly interacts with its chromatin cofactor PNUTS to recruit PP1 phosphatase.

Wei Y, Redel C, Ahlner A, Lemak A, Johansson-Åkhe I, Houliston S, Kenney TMG, Tamachi A, Morad V, Duan S, Andrews DW, Wallner B, Sunnerhagen M, Arrowsmith CH, Penn LZ

Nucleic Acids Res. 2022-3-4 . .doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac138

PMID: 35244724

Target 2035 - update on the quest for a probe for every protein.

Müller S, Ackloo S, Al Chawaf A, Al-Lazikani B, Antolin A, Baell JB, Beck H, Beedie S, Betz UAK, Bezerra GA, Brennan PE, Brown D, Brown PJ, Bullock AN, Carter AJ, Chaikuad A, Chaineau M, Ciulli A, Collins I, Dreher J, Drewry D, Edfeldt K, Edwards AM, Egner U, Frye SV, Fuchs SM, Hall MD, Hartung IV, Hillisch A, Hitchcock SH, Homan E, Kannan N, Kiefer JR, Knapp S, Kostic M, Kubicek S, Leach AR, Lindemann S, Marsden BD, Matsui H, Meier JL, Merk D, Michel M, Morgan MR, Mueller-Fahrnow A, Owen DR, Perry BG, Rosenberg SH, Saikatendu KS, Schapira M, Scholten C, Sharma S, Simeonov A, Sundström M, Superti-Furga G, Todd MH, Tredup C, Vedadi M, von Delft F, Willson TM, Winter GE, Workman P, Arrowsmith CH

RSC Med Chem. 2022-1-27 . 13(1):13-21 .doi: 10.1039/d1md00228g

PMID: 35211674

2021

Prediction and Validation of a Protein's Free Energy Surface Using Hydrogen Exchange and (Importantly) Its Denaturant Dependence.

Peng X, Baxa M, Faruk N, Sachleben JR, Pintscher S, Gagnon IA, Houliston S, Arrowsmith CH, Freed KF, Rocklin GJ, Sosnick TR

J Chem Theory Comput. 2021-12-22 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00960

PMID: 34936354

Huntingtin structure is orchestrated by HAP40 and shows a polyglutamine expansion-specific interaction with exon 1.

Harding RJ, Deme JC, Hevler JF, Tamara S, Lemak A, Cantle JP, Szewczyk MM, Begeja N, Goss S, Zuo X, Loppnau P, Seitova A, Hutchinson A, Fan L, Truant R, Schapira M, Carroll JB, Heck AJR, Lea SM, Arrowsmith CH

Commun Biol. 2021-12-8 . 4(1):1374 .doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02895-4

PMID: 34880419

A chemical probe targeting the PWWP domain alters NSD2 nucleolar localization.

Dilworth D, Hanley RP, Ferreira de Freitas R, Allali-Hassani A, Zhou M, Mehta N, Marunde MR, Ackloo S, Carvalho Machado RA, Khalili Yazdi A, Owens DDG, Vu V, Nie DY, Alqazzaz M, Marcon E, Li F, Chau I, Bolotokova A, Qin S, Lei M, Liu Y, Szewczyk MM, Dong A, Kazemzadeh S, Abramyan T, Popova IK, Hall NW, Meiners MJ, Cheek MA, Gibson E, Kireev D, Greenblatt JF, Keogh MC, Min J, Brown PJ, Vedadi M, Arrowsmith CH, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, James LI, Schapira M

Nat Chem Biol. 2021-11-15 . .doi: 10.1038/s41589-021-00898-0

PMID: 34782742

The human pseudouridine synthase PUS7 recognizes RNA with an extended multi-domain binding surface.

Guegueniat J, Halabelian L, Zeng H, Dong A, Li Y, Wu H, Arrowsmith CH, Kothe U

Nucleic Acids Res. 2021-10-28 . .doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab934

PMID: 34718722

Chemical Genetics Screen Identifies COPB2 Tool Compounds That Alters ER Stress Response and Induces RTK Dysregulation in Lung Cancer Cells.

Saraon P, Snider J, Schormann W, Rai A, Radulovich N, Sánchez-Osuna M, Coulombe-Huntington J, Huard C, Mohammed M, Lima-Fernandes E, Thériault B, Halabelian L, Chan M, Joshi D, Drecun L, Yao Z, Pathmanathan S, Wong V, Lyakisheva A, Aboualizadeh F, Niu L, Li F, Kiyota T, Subramanian R, Joseph B, Aman A, Prakesch M, Isaac M, Mamai A, Poda G, Vedadi M, Marcellus R, Uehling D, Leighl N, Sacher A, Samaržija M, Jakopović M, Arrowsmith C, Tyers M, Tsao MS, Andrews D, Al-Awar R, Stagljar I

J Mol Biol. 2021-10-16 . 433(23):167294 .doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2021.167294

PMID: 34662547

Structure-Activity Relationship of USP5 Inhibitors.

Mann MK, Zepeda-Velázquez CA, González-Álvarez H, Dong A, Kiyota T, Aman AM, Loppnau P, Li Y, Wilson B, Arrowsmith CH, Al-Awar R, Harding RJ, Schapira M

J Med Chem. 2021-10-14 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c00889

PMID: 34648286

MYC protein interactors in gene transcription and cancer.

Lourenco C, Resetca D, Redel C, Lin P, MacDonald AS, Ciaccio R, Kenney TMG, Wei Y, Andrews DW, Sunnerhagen M, Arrowsmith CH, Raught B, Penn LZ

Nat Rev Cancer. 2021-6-29 . .doi: 10.1038/s41568-021-00367-9

PMID: 34188192