Abstract In Ogihara’s edition of the Tocharian B so-called “Avadāna-Manuscript”, a fragment from Dhanika-Avadāna contains word santse. On basis parallel texts, it is shown that santse means ‘daughter-in-law’. This newly identified cognate with a.o. Greek νυός ‘daughter-in-law’ and derives Proto-Indo- European *snusó-.

The transcription factors F and B are related RNA polymerase sigma factors that govern dissimilar networks of adaptation to stress conditions in Bacillus subtilis. The two factors are controlled by closely related regulatory pathways, involving protein kinases and phosphatases. We report that insulation of the F pathway from the B pathway involves the integrated action of both the cognate kinas...

UNLABELLED Two-component systems (TCS) comprise histidine kinases and their cognate response regulators and allow bacteria to sense and respond to a wide variety of signals. Histidine kinases (HKs) phosphorylate and dephosphorylate their cognate response regulators (RRs) in response to stimuli. In general, these reactions appear to be highly specific and require an appropriate association betwe...

objective(s): this paper describes a selective and sensitive biosensor based on the dissolution and aggregation of aptamer wrapped single-walled carbon nanotubes. we report on the direct detection of aptamer–cocaine interactions, namely between a dna aptamer and cocaine molecules based on near-infrared absorption at λ807. materials and methods: first a dna aptamer recognizing cocaine was non-co...

The crystal structure of EcoRV endonuclease has been determined at 2.5 A resolution and that of its complexes with the cognate DNA decamer GGGATATCCC (recognition sequence underlined) and the non-cognate DNA octamer CGAGCTCG at 3.0 A resolution. Two octamer duplexes of the non-cognate DNA, stacked end-to-end, are bound to the dimeric enzyme in B-DNA-like conformations. The protein--DNA interact...

Assembly of soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion attachment protein receptor (SNARE) proteins between two opposing membranes is thought to be the key event that initiates membrane fusion. Many new SNARE proteins have recently been localized to distinct intracellular compartments, supporting the view that sets of specific SNAREs are specialized for distinct trafficking steps. We have now in...

We propose a novel unsupervised semantic method for distinguishing cognates from false friends. The basic intuition is that if two words are cognates, then most of the words in their respective local contexts should be translations of each other. The idea is formalised using the Web as a corpus, a glossary of known word translations used as cross-linguistic “bridges”, and the vector space model...

Focusing on the Foto dialect of Dschang (Yemba), an understudied Grassfields Bantu language spoken in Cameroon, this paper offers a cross-linguistic perspective Cognate Objects (CO). An argument analysis COs is supported by both comparison, e.g. forms corresponding wh-questions, compatibility with strong determiners, quantifiers and possessors, ability to be pronominalized relativized, Dschang-...