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anti conformation

In nucleic acid chemistry, the orientation about the glycosidic bond of a nucleoside or nucleotide that places the base away from the sugar moiety; contrasted with the syn conformation, in which the base and sugar are oriented towards each other. (see also Z-DNA)
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