Nature Communications (May 2020)

Pharmacological inhibition of PRMT7 links arginine monomethylation to the cellular stress response

  • Magdalena M. Szewczyk,
  • Yoshinori Ishikawa,
  • Shawna Organ,
  • Nozomu Sakai,
  • Fengling Li,
  • Levon Halabelian,
  • Suzanne Ackloo,
  • Amber L. Couzens,
  • Mohammad Eram,
  • David Dilworth,
  • Hideto Fukushi,
  • Rachel Harding,
  • Carlo C. dela Seña,
  • Tsukasa Sugo,
  • Kozo Hayashi,
  • David McLeod,
  • Carlos Zepeda,
  • Ahmed Aman,
  • Maria Sánchez-Osuna,
  • Eric Bonneil,
  • Shinji Takagi,
  • Rima Al-Awar,
  • Mike Tyers,
  • Stephane Richard,
  • Masayuki Takizawa,
  • Anne-Claude Gingras,
  • Cheryl H. Arrowsmith,
  • Masoud Vedadi,
  • Peter J. Brown,
  • Hiroshi Nara,
  • Dalia Barsyte-Lovejoy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16271-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) are increasingly recognized as potential therapeutic targets but PRMT7 remains an understudied member of this enzyme family. Here, the authors develop a chemical probe for PRMT7 and apply it to elucidate the role of PRMT7 in the cellular stress response.