TAPIR
\tˈapi͡ə], \tˈapiə], \t_ˈa_p_iə]\
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A thick-skinned, short-necked animal, having a short, flexible proboscis, found in Sumatra and South America.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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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.