say you have been asked to determine the molecular structure of a soluble protein with roughly 500 amino acids per subunit. you think there may be a lysine and aspartic acid interaction so but you want to get molecular conformation. what structural technique would you utilize in order to picture this interaction and what resolution would be needed?

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