“…Accordingly, DAB2 acts to control a variety of cellular processes including growth factor and hormone signaling, endocytosis and cell-adhesive function (Xu et al, 1998;Inoue et al, 2002;Morris et al, 2002;Kowanetz et al, 2003;Zhou et al, 2003). In the hematopoietic system, DAB2 is abundantly expressed in human platelets (Huang et al, 2004) and is upregulated through platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) autocrine signaling (Tseng et al, 2005) during megakaryocytic differentiation of human leukemic cell lines and CD34 + hematopoietic pluripotent stem cells (Tseng et al, 2001;Tseng et al, 2003;Huang et al, 2004). DAB2 negatively regulates ␣IIb3-integrin-mediated fibrinogen adhesion and cell signaling in a S24-phosphorylation-dependent manner that promotes DAB2 membrane translocation and the subsequent interaction with the 3 integrin cytoplasmic tail (Huang et al, 2004).…”