A configuration of RNA, left-hand twisting double helix, that takes up a zigzagging form due to the natural right-hand twisting tendency of double-stranded RNA.
A RNA helix in such a configuration.
Origin
Z + RNA. . From zigzagging of the zigzag configuration RNA, an RNA analogue of the previously discovered Z-DNA.
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