For the Following List of Anti-HIV Drugs and Their Mechanism

question 73

Multiple Choice

For the following list of anti-HIV drugs and their mechanism of action, identify the mismatch.

• A)Protease inhibitor; blocks the active site of the protease required for assembling new viral particles.
• B)Integrase inhibitor; blocks the active site of the enzyme required to splice HIV DNA into the human genome
• C)Reverse transcriptase inhibitor; blocks the active site of the enzyme required to convert viral RNA to DNA
• D)AZT (azidothymidine); as an analog of thymidine, it is incorporated into viral RNA in place of thymidine

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