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  1. Although the virus can infect other cell types, it main target are cells in the immune system. This is particularly bad because the infected individual cannot fight the HIV virus or other forms of infection.

  2. The altered protease has a lower affinity for the drugs, allowing the virus to grow in the presence of the drug. The altered protease has adequate function for maturation of the virus.

  3. Although the amino acid groups in the active site of each enzyme are different, they perform similar chemical functions.

  4. The mechanism requires that one be deprotanate (to activate the water) while the other one needs to donate a proton to the tetrahydral intermediate. .

  5. Only serine proteases form a covalent bond between the reaction intermediate and the active site Ser residue.
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