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Nature Cell Biology 8, 524–531 (1 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/ncb1398

Loss of the VHR dual-specific phosphatase causescell-cycle arrest and senescence

Souad Rahmouni , Fabio Cerignoli , Andres Alonso , Toshiya Tsutji , Rachel Henkens , Changjun Zhu , Christine Louis-dit-Sully , Michel Moutschen , Wei Jiang & Tomas Mustelin

Protein tyrosine phosphatases regulate important processes in eukaryotic cells and have critical functions in many human diseases including diabetes to cancer. Here, we report that the human Vaccinia H1-related (VHR) dual-specific protein tyrosine phosphatase regulates cell-cycle progression and is itself modulated during the cell cycle.