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    TACC3-ch-TOG track the growing tips of microtubules independently of clathrin and Aurora-A phosphorylation

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    The interaction between TACC3 (transforming acidic coiled coil protein 3) and the microtubule polymerase ch-TOG (colonic, hepatic tumor overexpressed gene) is evolutionarily conserved. Loading of TACC3–ch-TOG onto spindle microtubules requires the phosphorylation of TACC3 by Aurora-A kinase and the subsequent interaction of TACC3 with clathrin to form a microtubule binding surface. Whether there is a pool of TACC3–ch-TOG that is independent of clathrin in human cells, and what is the function of this pool, are open questions. Here, we report that TACC3 is recruited to the plus-ends of microtubules by its association with ch-TOG and that this pool is independent of phosphorylation and binding to clathrin. The plus-end binding of TACC3–ch-TOG persists in interphase and we propose that one cellular function of TACC3–ch-TOG is to modulate cell migration. We also describe the distinct subcellular pools of TACC3, ch-TOG and clathrin. TACC3 is often described as a centrosomal protein, but we show that there is no significant population of TACC3 at centrosomes. The delineation of distinct protein pools reveals a simplified view of how these proteins are organized and controlled by post-translational modification

    General Chiang Kai-shek : the builder of new China

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    General Chiang Kai-shek"Significant speeches [by General Chiang]": p. [51]-107.by Chen Tsung-hsi, Wang An-tsiang and Wang I-ting; with an introduction by Dr. Chenting T. Wang and a preface by Dr. Wang Chung-hui

    The two widows: a comparison of the educational influence of Krupskaya, wife of Lenin and Chiang Ch'ing, wife of Mao

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    A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Education. Johannesburg, 1962.This dissertation studies the educational influence of two women. One of these women is Nadezhda K. Krupskaya (1863 - ,936), wife of Lenin who was Premier of the U.S.S.A. The other woman is Chiang Ch-ing fbo m in 1914 and still alive today), third wife of Mao Tse-Tung who was Chairman of the People's Republic of China. Both Krupskaya and Chiang Ch'ing had Marxist backgrounds, and both carried out the political ideologies of their husbands. Krupskaya was a pedagogist who stressed especially the need for polytechnical education in the school. She believed that this type of learning would contribute greatly towards fulfilling the ..pciai and economic reouirements of a communist society. Chiang Ch'ing, in contrast to Krupskaya, had little education. While assisting Mao in implementing his re dims in the schools during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution her greatest influence was in the area of China's national culture Having gained supreme authority in this sphere, she turned the performing arts into a vehicle for Mac's ideas which were to serve Proletarian politics. Krupskaya's polytechnics! concepts are today stressed at every stage of the Russian educational system. Despite this, however, it has been found that Russian schooling produces an inegalitarian society, which is in conlict with the ideals postulated. After Mac's death, Chiang Ch'ing, with the other members of the 'Gang of Pour' of which she was ringleader, was arrested and imprisoned. The new leaders, while systematically restoring ore-Cultural Revolution policies used the 'Gang of Four' as scapegoats in their political campaign. Chiang Cn'ing has been denounced as a traitor, and all vestiges of her influence have been eradicated
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