Protease inhibitor
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Protease inhibitor can refer to:
- Protease inhibitor (pharmacology)Protease inhibitor (pharmacology)Protease inhibitors are a class of drugs used to treat or prevent infection by viruses, including HIV and Hepatitis C. PIs prevent viral replication by inhibiting the activity of proteases, e.g.HIV-1 protease, enzymes used by the viruses to cleave nascent proteins for final assembly of new...
: a class of medication that inhibits viral protease - Protease inhibitor (biology)Protease inhibitor (biology)In biology and biochemistry, protease inhibitors are molecules that inhibit the function of proteases. Many naturally occurring protease inhibitors are proteins....
: molecules that inhibit proteases