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.

2022

CACHE (Critical Assessment of Computational Hit-finding Experiments): A public-private partnership benchmarking initiative to enable the development of computational methods for hit-finding.

Ackloo S, Al-Awar R, Amaro RE, Arrowsmith CH, Azevedo H, Batey RA, Bengio Y, Betz UAK, Bologa CG, Chodera JD, Cornell WD, Dunham I, Ecker GF, Edfeldt K, Edwards AM, Gilson MK, Gordijo CR, Hessler G, Hillisch A, Hogner A, Irwin JJ, Jansen JM, Kuhn D, Leach AR, Lee AA, Lessel U, Morgan MR, Moult J, Muegge I, Oprea TI, Perry BG, Riley P, Rousseaux SAL, Saikatendu KS, Santhakumar V, Schapira M, Scholten C, Todd MH, Vedadi M, Volkamer A, Willson TM

Nat Rev Chem. 2022-7-6 . 6(4):287-295 .doi: 10.1038/s41570-022-00363-z

PMID: 35783295

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

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

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

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