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Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus Medical Center, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Homeostasis of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) is a tightly regulated process, controlled by intrinsic and extrinsic signals. Although a variety of molecules involved in HSC maintenance and self-renewal are known, it remains unclear how robust HSC homeostasis is achieved. In this issue of Genes & Development, Rathinam and colleagues (992–997) report a new player in HSC homeostasis, c-Cbl ubiq-uitin ligase. They show that this E3 ubiquitin ligase acts as a negative regulator of cytokine signaling.
[Keywords: Hematopoietic stem cells; c-Cbl; thrombopoietin; STAT5; self-renewal]]
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Article is online at http://www.genesdev.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/gad.1669908.
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Genes & Dev. 2008 22: 992-997.