BEECH
\bˈiːt͡ʃ], \bˈiːtʃ], \b_ˈiː_tʃ]\
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A common forest tree with smooth, silvery-looking bark, and producing nuts, once eaten by man, now only by pigs.
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BEECHEN.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
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Procollagen Proline Dioxygenase
- mixed-function oxygenase that catalyzes hydroxylation prolyl-glycyl-containing-peptide, usually in protocollagen, hydroxyprolylglycyl-peptide. The enzyme utilizes molecular oxygen with a concomitant oxidative decarboxylation of 2-oxoglutarate to succinate. EC 1.14.11.2.