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From: "Mavrommatis Kostas" <mavromat@imbb.forth.gr>
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Hi everybody,
does anybody knows if there is an experimental method for identifying the
formation of a salt bridge, apart from structural studies?
I have some mutants of a protein that are supposed to form different number
of salt bridges and I want to verify this.
Is there a way to do this by using chaotropic salts or DSC? or something
else?

I thank you in advance.



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