Researchers would like to create HIV protease inhibitors that will not become ineffective due to viral strain resistance. One approach is to design a:

A. protease with no aspartate residues.
B. protease inhibitor and treat all patients in a community simultaneously.
C protease inhibitor that will not be mutated in the aspartate region.
D. protease inhibitor that binds to highly conserved protease sequences.
E. random screening program that tests hundreds of drug candidates.


D

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