Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Cell Stem Cell. 2011 Sep 2;9(3):187-92. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2011.08.005.
The cell cycle regulators involved in maintaining the quiescence, and thereby the self-renewal capacity, of somatic stem cells have long been elusive. Two new Cell Stem Cell articles in this issue (Matsumoto et al., 2011; Zou et al., 2011) now show that the CDK inhibitor p57 is a crucial brake for cycling HSCs, and links self-renewal activity to cell cycle quiescence.
长期以来,参与维持体干细胞静止状态(从而维持其自我更新能力)的细胞周期调控因子一直难以捉摸。本期《细胞—干细胞》中的两篇新文章(Matsumoto 等人,2011;Zou 等人,2011)现在表明,细胞周期蛋白依赖性激酶抑制剂 p57 是循环造血干细胞(HSCs)的关键制动装置,将自我更新活性与细胞周期静止联系起来。