You are wishing to design a drug that acts against a recently identified retrovirus. Based upon what you know about retroviruses, which of the following would be the best target for specifically interrupting the viral life cycle in eukaryotic cells?
A)DNA polymerase
B)primase
C)30S ribosomal subunits
D)reverse transcriptase
E)RNA polymerase

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Reverse transcriptase is a key enzyme used by retroviruses to convert their RNA genome into DNA, which is then integrated into the host genome. Targeting reverse transcriptase can specifically interrupt the retroviral life cycle.

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