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Cheryl H. Arrowsmith

Cheryl H. Arrowsmith

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Best Female Scientists
2025
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Biology and Biochemistry
Canada
2023

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
117
Citations
46944
World Ranking
650
National Ranking
20

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
123
Citations
49984
World Ranking
562
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

What is she best known for? The fields of study she is best known for: Gene Enzyme DNA Cheryl H. Arrowsmith mainly investigates Biochemistry, Protein structure, Genetics, Molecular biology and Histone. Her study in Enzyme, Methyltransferase, Binding site, Plasma protein binding and Histone H3 is carried out as part of her Biochemistry studies. The Protein structure study combines topics in areas such as Biophysics, Protein folding, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Stereochemistry and Gene. Her work carried out in the field of Genetics brings together such families of science as Computational biology and Cell biology. She works mostly in the field of Computational biology, limiting it down to concerns involving Protein engineering and, occasionally, Protein design. In her study, Cancer research and Methyltransferase complex is inextricably linked to Chromatin, which falls within the broad field of Histone. Her most cited work include: Epigenetic protein families: a new frontier for drug discovery (956 citations) Histone recognition and large-scale structural analysis of the human bromodomain family. (937 citations) Histone recognition and large-scale structural analysis of the human bromodomain family. (937 citations) What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date? Her primary scientific interests are in Crystal structure, Crystallography, Deposition, Group and Biochemistry. Her studies in Crystal structure integrate themes in fields like Phosphatase, Stereochemistry and Bromodomain. In most of her Stereochemistry studies, her work intersects topics such as Ligand. Her study in Crystallography is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both FERM domain and Helicase. Many of her studies on Group involve topics that are commonly interrelated, such as Chemical engineering. Her Biochemistry study is mostly concerned with Methyltransferase, Protein structure, Histone and Binding site. She most often published in these fields: Crystal structure (54.01%) Crystallography (34.60%) Deposition (22.27%) What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2019-2021)? Crystal structure (54.01%) Crystallography (34.60%) Deposition (22.27%) In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study: The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Crystal structure, Crystallography, Deposition, Group and Phosphatase. Her Crystal structure research incorporates elements of Stereochemistry and Bromodomain. Her research on Bromodomain frequently connects to adjacent areas such as Pleckstrin homology domain. Along with Pleckstrin homology domain, other disciplines of study including Group and Space are integrated into her research. Her Crystallography research incorporates themes from FERM domain and Helicase. Group is closely attributed to Chemical engineering in her study. Between 2019 and 2021, her most popular works were: Metabolic Regulation of the Epigenome Drives Lethal Infantile Ependymoma. (20 citations) Metabolic Regulation of the Epigenome Drives Lethal Infantile Ependymoma. (20 citations) Metabolic Regulation of the Epigenome Drives Lethal Infantile Ependymoma. (20 citations)

Best Publications

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

    Panagis Filippakopoulos;Sarah Picaud;Maria Mangos;Tracy Keates

  • Epigenetic protein families: a new frontier for drug discovery

    Cheryl H. Arrowsmith;Chas Bountra;Paul V. Fish;Kevin Lee;Kevin Lee

  • Protein production and purification.

    S Gräslund

  • Consistent blind protein structure generation from NMR chemical shift data

    Yang Shen;Oliver Lange;Frank Delaglio;Paolo Rossi

  • The promise and peril of chemical probes.

    Cheryl H. Arrowsmith;James E. Audia;Christopher Austin;Jonathan Baell

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

    Masoud Vedadi;Frank H. Niesen;Abdellah Allali-Hassani;Oleg Y. Fedorov

  • Ductal pancreatic cancer modeling and drug screening using human pluripotent stem cell– and patient-derived tumor organoids

    Ling Huang;Audrey Holtzinger;Ishaan Jagan;Michael Begora

  • Somatic mutations at EZH2 Y641 act dominantly through a mechanism of selectively altered PRC2 catalytic activity, to increase H3K27 trimethylation.

    Damian B. Yap;Damian B. Yap;Justin Chu;Tobias Berg;Matthieu Schapira

  • A Suite of Triple Resonance NMR Experiments for the Backbone Assignment of 15N, 13C, 2H Labeled Proteins with High Sensitivity

    Toshio Yamazaki;Weontae Lee;Cheryl H. Arrowsmith;D. R. Muhandiram

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

    Masoud Vedadi;Dalia Barsyte-Lovejoy;Feng Liu;Sylvie Rival-Gervier

  • Self-renewal as a therapeutic target in human colorectal cancer

    Antonija Kreso;Peter van Galen;Nicholas M Pedley;Evelyne Lima-Fernandes

  • ATM‐dependent telomere loss in aging human diploid fibroblasts and DNA damage lead to the post‐translational activation of p53 protein involving poly(ADP‐ribose) polymerase

    Homayoun Vaziri;Michael D. West;Richard C. Allsopp;Timothy S. Davison

  • Structural basis for recognition of hemi-methylated DNA by the SRA domain of human UHRF1

    George V. Avvakumov;John R. Walker;Sheng Xue;Yanjun Li

  • Gain-of-function p53 mutants co-opt chromatin pathways to drive cancer growth

    Jiajun Zhu;Morgan A. Sammons;Greg Donahue;Zhixun Dou

  • Global analysis of protein folding using massively parallel design, synthesis, and testing

    Gabriel J. Rocklin;Tamuka M. Chidyausiku;Inna Goreshnik;Alex Ford

  • An orally bioavailable chemical probe of the Lysine Methyltransferases EZH2 and EZH1.

    Kyle D. Konze;Anqi Ma;Fengling Li;Dalia Barsyte-Lovejoy

  • Structure of the p53 binding domain of HAUSP/USP7 bound to Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 1 implications for EBV-mediated immortalization.

    Vivian Saridakis;Yi Sheng;Feroz Sarkari;Melissa N. Holowaty

  • Structural proteomics of an archaeon.

    Dinesh Christendat;Adelinda Yee;Akil Dharamsi;Yuval Kluger

  • Fate mapping of human glioblastoma reveals an invariant stem cell hierarchy

    Xiaoyang Lan;David J. Jörg;Florence M. G. Cavalli;Laura M. Richards;Laura M. Richards

  • Association of UHRF1 with methylated H3K9 directs the maintenance of DNA methylation

    Scott B Rothbart;Krzysztof Krajewski;Nataliya Nady;Wolfram Tempel

Frequent Co-Authors

Aled M. Edwards
Aled M. Edwards Structural Genomics Consortium
Opher Gileadi
Opher Gileadi Karolinska Institute
Adrian Edwards
Adrian Edwards Cardiff University
Stefan Knapp
Stefan Knapp Goethe University Frankfurt
Udo Oppermann
Udo Oppermann University of Oxford
Panagis Filippakopoulos
Panagis Filippakopoulos Structural Genomics Consortium
Masoud Vedadi
Masoud Vedadi Structural Genomics Consortium
Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan International Agency For Research On Cancer
Oleg Fedorov
Oleg Fedorov University of Oxford
Alex N. Bullock
Alex N. Bullock University of Oxford

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