This a four month Bachelor thesis project. Wiebke worked entirely on thermophilic enzymes and entirely on crystallography. Much of the work is related to an exciting paper that came out by Prakash recently (Journal of Bacteriology 196:2491-2498, 2014) that identified a number of proteins involved in the activation of MCR. A couple of these proteins had already been on our list (McrC and AtwA).  