MORTIMER COLLINS
\mˈɔːtɪmə kˈɒlɪnz], \mˈɔːtɪmə kˈɒlɪnz], \m_ˈɔː_t_ɪ_m_ə k_ˈɒ_l_ɪ_n_z]\
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An English novelist and poet; born in Plymouth, June 29, 1827; died at Knowl Hill, Berkshire, July 28, 1876. His "Idyls and Rhymes", "Summer Songs", and "The British Birds", are the efforts of an inspired verse-maker. His novels: "Who Is the Heir?\" (1865); "Sweet Anne Page" (1868); "The Ivory Gate" (1869); "The Vivian Romance" (1870); "The Marquis and Merchant" (1871); "Two Plunges for a Pearl" (1872); "Blacksmith and Scholar" (1875); and others, are much admired.
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.