SLAVE-TRADE
\slˈe͡ɪvtɹˈe͡ɪd], \slˈeɪvtɹˈeɪd], \s_l_ˈeɪ_v_t_ɹ_ˈeɪ_d]\
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n. The traffic in human beings, or the sale and purchase of Africans and negroes as personal property, goods, or chattels; especially, the business of stealing, kidnapping, or purchasing men, women, and children, and transporting them from the western coasts of Africa to the continent of America.
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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.