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REPORT DATE
December 2012
REPORT TYPE
Annual Summary
DATES COVERED
15November2011-14November2012
TITLE AND SUBTITLE
Regulation of Mammary Stem Cell Quiescence via Post-Translational
5a. CONTRACT NUMBERModification of DeltaNp63alpha.
5b. GRANT NUMBERW81XWH-11-1-0043 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER
AUTHOR(S)Andrew. J DeCastro, B.S., Pratima Cherukuri, M.S., James DiRenzo, PhD.5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e. TASK NUMBER E-Mail: Andrew.J.DeCastro@Dartmouth.edu 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER
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PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBERDartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
SPONSORING / MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S)U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702-5012
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DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENTApproved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited
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ABSTRACTThis document is the Annual Summary Report on the training grant awarded to Andrew DeCastro entitled Regulation of Mammary Stem Cell Quiescence via Post-translational Modification of ∆NP63α. Here, we report our findings of the effects of TGFβ (previously validated as a kinase in our kinome screen) mediated phosphorylation of ∆NP63α on stem cell behavior and mitotic activity. Task 1 aims to determine the effects of wild-type, phospho-ablative and phospho-mimetic alleles of ∆NP63α phosphorylation on stem cell behavior in vitro. Thus far, we demonstrate that stem cell enriched populations, as indicated by ALDH1 activity, contain higher concentrations of ∆NP63α mRNA. In addition, we demonstrate that the anti-clonogenic effects of TGFβ are mediated through phosphorylation of ∆NP63α, which is rescued via ectopic expression of the phospho-ablative mutant ∆NP63α-AA. Task 2 aims to identify putative ∆NP63α-kinases and determine their role in mitotic activation. Here we further characterize TGFβ-mediated phosphorylation of ∆NP63α. We demonstrate that TGFβ phosphorylation of ∆NP63α is a destabilizing event, and dependent on the proteasomal degradation pathway. We also report a non-canonical pathway in which ALK5 (TGF...