Question: What Crystilation and Hiv-1 studies?and how hard are they

Duncan Gaskin answered on 17 Mar 2013:

I had to make crystals of a protein found in the HIV-1 virus. To do this I had to make the protein in a bacteria called Escherichia coli so that I had enough of it to work with. Once I had enough of the protein I had to try and make it form crystals, this took a lot time and trying different things. I wanted crystals of this protein so that I could shine X-rays through it and work out its shape which is very important in helping us understand how it works.