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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 22.
Published in final edited form as: Rep Prog Phys. 2005 Jan;68(1):237–270. doi: 10.1088/0034-4885/68/1/R05

Figure 15. B-DNA and Z-DNA.

Figure 15

The two forms of DNA are cartooned here. B-DNA has a simple helical structure and is right-handed, leading to negative nodes. Z-DNA is a helix with a zigzag backbone resulting from a dimer being the helical repeat unit. It is left-handed, leading to positive nodes.