“…The Src homology 2 (SH2) domain-containing inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase (SHIP) family is a recently described subset of type II 5-phosphatase. SHIPs are tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins with several interesting features: an amino-terminal SH2 domain, a central catalytic domain and, at the carboxyl tail, several NPxY motifs [able to interact with phosphotyrosine-binding domain (PTB)] and Src homology 3-interacting prolinerich motifs (Drayer et al, 1996;Pesesse et al, 1997;Erneux et al, 1998;Majerus et al, 1999;Rohrschneider et al, 2000). Because of their ability to interact with SH2/PTB-containing protein, such as Src homology 2 domain-containing transforming protein 1 (Shc) (Pradhan and Coggeshall, 1997), and to dephosphorylate phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate [PtdIns(3,4,5)P 3 ] (Drayer et al, 1996;Pesesse et al, 1998), the SHIPs have the potential to regulate the Ras/MAP kinase pathway and many, if not all, PI 3K induced events.…”