JESSE AMES SPENCER
\d͡ʒˈɛsi ˈe͡ɪmz spˈɛnsə], \dʒˈɛsi ˈeɪmz spˈɛnsə], \dʒ_ˈɛ_s_i_ ˈeɪ_m_z s_p_ˈɛ_n_s_ə]\
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An American educator and author; born at Hyde Park, N. Y., June 17, 1816; died in New York city, Sept. 2, 1898. He was appointed professor of Greek in the College of the City of New York in 1869, and was the author of a volume of religious "Discourses" (1843): "History of the English Reformation" (1846); "History of the United States". (4 vols., 1856-69); "Greek Praxis" (1870), and a "Course of English Reading" (1873); "Memorabilia of Sixty-five Years" (1820-86); 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.