lysyl oxidase

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lysyl oxidase [′lī·səl ′äk·sə‚dās]

(biochemistry)

Any of a group of enzymes found in bone and connective tissue which oxidize terminal amino groups of lysine residues in tropocollagen molecules to aldehyde residues.

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