GILBERT HAVEN
\ɡˈɪlbət hˈe͡ɪvən], \ɡˈɪlbət hˈeɪvən], \ɡ_ˈɪ_l_b_ə_t h_ˈeɪ_v_ə_n]\
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A distinguished American prose-writer and bishop of the M. E. Church; born in Malden, Mass., Sept. 19, 1821; died there, Jan. 30, 1880. An able writer, a forceful preacher, and a persistent worker, he refused all honorary collegiate degrees. He published "The Pilgrim's Wallet, or Sketches of Travel in England, France, and Germany"; "Life of Father Taylor, the Sailor Preacher" (1871); "Our Next-Door Neighbor, or a Winter in Mexico" (1875); etc.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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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.