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A 27 year old woman who is seropositive for HIV is taking two different reverse transcriptase inhibitors and a protease inhibitor. Which of the following best explains the beneficial action of the protease inhibitor in this combination?
A. antagonizing the stimulation of DNA replication by the reverse transcriptase inhibitors.
B. Blocking the cleavage step in active virion production
C. disrupting the catalytic site on reverse transcriptase synthetase.
D. inhibiting the protein that permits DNA chain elongation.
E. Preventing the proteolytic cleavage of reverse transcriptase.

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B

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B

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