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The polymorphism of nucleic acids is now well established and we know enough about the so-called Z-DNA form of left-handed helix to be able to undertake a quantum molecular approach of the various possible transconformations. This paper reports some of the first results we obtain by computations on our disugar-triphosphate model, essentially in the study of the varying conformations opened to the phosphate groups and the optimization of the forms named ZI and ZII.
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Broch, H., Viani, R., Grassi, H., Vasilescu, D. (1990). Z-DNA Transconformation: A Quantum Molecular Approach. In: Vasilescu, D., Jaz, J., Packer, L., Pullman, B. (eds) Water and Ions in Biomolecular Systems. Advances in Life Sciences. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7253-9_5
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