Abstract: An apparatus attached to a lifting device on a transport vehicle for handling a container, the apparatus comprising two arms. At least one arm comprises a first generally C-shaped latch member having a first opening sized to allow a passage of a latching projection therethrough. The at least one arm also comprises a second generally C-shaped latch member rotatably nested inside the first latch member. The second latch member has a second opening sized to allow the passage of the latching projection therethrough and has an inner contact surface shaped to receive the latching projection on the side of the container. The at least one arm also comprises rotating means to selectively rotate each of the second latch members with respect to the first latch member between a capture position, a locking position and a dumping position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel centrosome-associated protein, to the polynucleotide coding for the aforementioned protein and to the applications of said protein and polynucleotide. The overexpression of the inventive protein disrupts the mitotic spindle assembly and leads to aberrant and abortive mitoses.