Protease inhibitors:
A) inhibit the action of reverse transcriptase.
B) are glycoproteins found in saliva.
C) result in viral copies that cannot infect new cells.
D) can cure AIDS patients.
E) destroy helper T cells.

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Protease inhibitors work by inhibiting the protease enzyme that viruses, particularly HIV, use to cleave viral polyproteins into the smaller proteins necessary for assembling new virions. By inhibiting this process, the resulting viral particles are defective and cannot effectively infect new cells.

Protease Inhibitors