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Although recombinant Pct1 and Pce1 enzymes have been purified and characterized biochemically, and shown to function in cap formation when expressed in S. cerevisiae [ 12 20 21 ] , there have been no antecedent genetic studies of the essentiality of Pct1 or Pce1 in fission yeast.
Bandar `rhesus monkey' and bondar `palm civet,' for example, both derive from bada or badar `monkey,' while baniya `merchant' is the Hindi antecedent of both banyan `tree' and bunnia `member of a merchant caste.
Antecedent infection with many different microbes is often associated with the development of autoimmune disease in humans, but the pathogenic mechanisms involved, if any, are unknown.
Klepp, Entertainment Weekly ). Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt calls the report a "nonfiction novel" in the New York Times and finds its closest literary antecedent in the writings of medieval inquisitors, in particular Kramer and Sprengerr's Malleus Maleficarum . Adam Gopnik writes in The New Yorker that Americans overwhelmingly side with Clinton because "a scapegrace hero is always more appealing than a moralizing narrator."
So, whereas for dinkum , for instance, a sense history can be established that fits chronologically with a verifiable regional antecedent, for pommy there is no such answer.