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NAME POSITION TITLE Cheng, Xiaodong eRA COMMONS USER NAME (credential, e.g., agency login) Professor of Biochemistry xcheng EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral training and residency training if applicable.) DEGREE INSTITUTION AND LOCATION MM/YY FIELD OF STUDY (if applicable)

Fudan University, Shanghai, China B.Sc. 1982 Physics

State University of New York at Stony Brook Ph.D. 1989 Crystallography

A. Personal Statement.

I have studied the biological methylation for the last 20 years. It was in Cold Spring Harbor laboratory where I began a fruitful research collaboration with Dr. Richard J. Roberts that led to the discovery of DNA base flipping by HhaI (1994). I moved to Emory in 1997 and my current work focuses on structural and functional linkage of DNA and histone methylation. My group determined the first structure of a protein arginine methyltransferase (2000), the first structure of a histone lysine methyltransferase (2002), established a switch mechanism of Phe/Tyr (phenylalanine/tyrosine) in controlling the product specificity, i.e. the degree of lysine methylation by mono-, di- or tri-methyl groups (2003), and illustrated the transition from nonspecific to specific DNA interaction along the substrate recognition pathway by a DNA methyltransferase (2005). In collaboration with a group of scientists, my group used structural and biochemical analyses that provide insights into the long-standing question of how imprinted genes are targeted for DNA methylation and discovered the mechanistic linkage of unmethylated H3 lysine 4 to de novo DNA methylation (2007). Recently, my group demonstrated that an ankyrin repeat domain bind selectively to mono- and dimethylated lysine 9 of histone H3 (2008), a recognition of hemi-methylated CpG by SRA domain using a base-flipping mechanism (2008), a structural basis for inhibition of G9a histone H3 lysine 9 methyltransferase by a small molecule inhibitor (2009), and a role of Jumonji in reciprocal methylation of H3K4 and H3K9 (2010).

B. Positions.

6/1/1990 – 3/31/1997 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Robertson Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1990-1991) Staff Investigator (1992-1993) Senior Staff Investigator and W.M. Keck Foundation endowed professor (1994-1997) 4/1/1997 – present Emory University School of Medicine: Professor of Biochemistry and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Adjunct professor of Chemistry and Physics

Honors Albert E. Levy Awards for Excellence in Scientific Research (2008)

Grant Reviewer: NIH MSFC Study section (Ad hoc Feb. 2008); NIEHS Special Emphasis Panel of Environmental Influences on Epigenetic Regulation (2006); NCI molecular oncology 3 cluster Review Committee (2006); American Society: Genetic Mechanisms in Cancer Committee member (2005); NCI site visit team for the review of the Laboratory of Immunobiology (2003); NCI initial review group (2001); NIH BBCB Study Section Member (1997-2001); Army Breast Cancer Research Program (1995-1996).

Meeting Organizer and Session Chair FASEB Summer Methylation meetings: co-organizer with Mark Bedford (2008); Session chairperson (2010, 2006, 2004, 2001); Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Banbury Center conference on “DNA base flipping: how and why”, 7-10 April 1996 (Co-organizer with R.S. Lloyd).

Emory University Committee member Emory University School of Medicine: Faculty Committee on Appointments and Promotions (2010-); Chairperson of Biochemistry Structural Biology Faculty Search Committee (2006); Member of Chair search committee for Radiology Department (2003-2004); Faculty Committee on Appointments and Promotions (1999-2001).

Board member Editorial Board of (2006-); Editorial Board of Nucleic Acids Research (2002-) Board member and treasurer of Epigenetic Society (formerly DNA Methylation Society) (2005-)

Book Editorship AdoMet-dependent Methytransferases: Structures and Functions. World Scientific Publishing Co., 1999 (Co-editors: X. Cheng and R.M. Blumenthal)

C. Selected peer-reviewed publications (15 of 116 publications) http://www.biochem.emory.edu/labs/xcheng/

Most Recent: 1. Horton, J.R., Upadhyay, A.K., Qi, H.H., Zhang, X., Shi, Y., Cheng, X. (2010) Enzymatic and structural insights for substrate specificity of a family of jumonji histone lysine demethylases. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 17: 38-43. 2. Chang, Y., Zhang, X., Horton, J.R., Upadhyay, A.K., Spannhoff, A., Liu, J., Snyder, J.P., Bedford, M.T., Cheng, X. (2009) Structural basis for G9a-like protein lysine methyltransferase inhibition by BIX-01294. Nature Struct. Mol. Biol. 16: 312-317. 3. Hashimoto, H., Horton, J.R., Zhang, X., Bostick, M., Jacobsen, S., Cheng, X. (2008) The SRA domain of UHRF1 flips 5-methylcytosine out of the DNA helix. Nature 455: 826-829. 4. Collins, R.E., Northrop, J.P., Horton, J.R., Lee, D.Y., Zhang, X., Stallcup, M.R., Cheng, X. (2008) The ankyrin repeats of G9a and GLP histone are mono- and di-methyl-lysine binding modules. Nature Struct. Mol. Biol. 15: 245-250. 5. Jia, D., Jurkowska, R., Zhang, X,. Jeltsch, A., Cheng, X. (2007) Structure of Dnmt3a bound Dnmt3L suggests a model for de novo DNA methylation. Nature 449: 248-251. 6. Lan F, Collins RE, del Cegli R, Alpatov R, Horton JR, Shi X, Gozani O, Cheng X, Shi Y (2007) Recognition of un-methylated H3K4 by the BHC80 PHD finger links BHC80 to LSD1 mediated gene repression. Nature 448, 718-722 7. Ooi S, Qiu C, Bernstein E, Li K, Jia D, Yang Z, Erdjument-Bromage H, Tempst P, Lin SP, Allis CD, Cheng X, Bestor TH (2007) DNMT3L connects unmethylated lysine 4 of histone H3 to de novo methylation of DNA. Nature 448, 714-7 8. Zhang X, Yang Z, Khan SI, Horton JR, Tamaru H, Selker EU, Cheng X (2003) Structural basis for the product specificity of histone lysine methyltransferases. Molecular Cell 12, 177-185 9. Zhang X, Tamaru H, Khan SI, Horton JR, Keefe LJ, Selker EU, Cheng X (2002) Structure of the Neurospora SET domain protein DIM-5, a histone H3 lysine methyltransferase. Cell 111, 117-127 10. Zhang X, Zhou L, Cheng X (2000) Crystal structure of the conserved core of the protein arginine methyltransferase PRMT3. EMBO J. 19, 3509-3519

Additional publications of importance to the field: 1. Cheng, X., Kumar, S., Posfai, J., Pflugrath, J.W., Roberts, R.J. (1993) Crystal structure of the HhaI DNA methyltransferase complexed with S-adenosyl-L-methionine. Cell 74: 299-307. 2. Klimasauskas, S., Kumar, S., Roberts, R.J., Cheng, X. (1994) HhaI methyltransferase flips its target base out of the DNA helix. Cell 76: 357-369. 3. O’Gara, M., Horton, J.R., Roberts, R.J., Cheng, X. (1998) Structures of HhaI methyltransferase complexed with substrates containing mismatches at the target base. Nature Struct. Biol. 5: 872-877. 4. Yang, Z., Horton, J.R., Zhou, L., Zhang, X.J., Dong. A., Zhang, X., Schlagman, S.L., Kossykh, V., Hattman. S., Cheng X (2003) Structure of the bacteriophage T4 DNA methyltransferase. Nature Struct. Biol. 10: 849-855. 5. Horton, J.R., Liebert, K., Hattman, S., Jeltsch, A., Cheng, X. (2005) Transition from nonspecific to specific DNA interaction along the substrate recognition pathway of Dam methyltransferase. Cell 121: 349-361.

D. Research Support.

Current Active Grant Support

2R01-GM068680-05 Cheng (PI) 06/01/09-05/31/13 Title: Histone Lysine Methylation The major goals of this project are to determine the histone methylation crosstalk mechanisms by linked protein modules between a methyl writer and a methyl reader (aims 1 and 2); between two readers (aim 3); and between a methyl reader and an eraser (aim 4). Role: PI

5R56-DK082678-02 Cheng (PI) Jeltsch and Shinkai (Co-PI) 09/30/08-08/31/10 Title: Identification and characterization of novel epigenetic marks of non-histone proteins by SPOT peptide arrays The major goal of this project is to use of SPOT peptide arrays to identify novel epigenetic methyl marks of non-histone proteins. This award is part of the Roadmap Epigenome Program and will end on 08/31/2010. Role: PI

1RC1-GM092035-01 YOON and CHENG (multi-PI) 04/01/10–03/31/12 Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells with Novel Small Molecule Regulator

Pending Grant Support 2R01-GM49245-17A1 Cheng (PI) 07/01/10-06/30/14 Title: DNA Methylation: Structures, Functions, and Regulation The major goal of this project is to continue the investigation of functional role of posttranslational modifications of mammalian DNA methyltransferases (Dnmts) in epigenetic regulation of , using a combination of biochemical assays, X-ray crystallography, and in vivo assays. Role: PI