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The importance of the guanidinium-carboxylate interactions has sprung from the observed salt bridges often present in biological systems involving the arginine-glutamate or arginine-aspartate side chains. The strength of these interactions has been explained on the basis of a great coulombic energy gain, due to the closeness of two charges of opposite sign and the occurrence of H-bond interactions...