HIV Enzyme Structure (VIDEO)

American Institute of Physics

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When it binds an inhibitor drug, HIV reverse transcriptase is forced into an open state that cannot transcribe RNA to DNA though a single amino acid mutation can make the protein drug resistant.

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G. Schauer/University of Pittsburgh

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