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AZT Is One Drug Used as an HIV Inhibitor

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AZT is one drug used as an HIV inhibitor. How does it specifically inhibit viral replication?


A) AZT is not taken up by human cells.
B) AZT binds to human polymerases with lower affinity than to viral reverse transcriptase.
C) AZT cannot be phosphorylated to a triphosphate.
D) AZT only inhibits active transcription and not DNA replication.
E) AZT inhibits viral assembly and packing.

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