Hi Markus,

I had a brief look at the structure fragment that you had included in your 
mail, and I don't think that you really observe these two conformations. 
Stereochemistry of the A conformation looks fine, but the sugar in the 
alternate B conformation is not an NAG but an NDG (i.e. it has an 
alpha-linkage, not a beta-linkage). In N-glycans, however, the GlcNAc residues 
are always in beta anomeric conformation in nature. Therefore I recommend to 
exclude the alternate B conformation (atoms 139-152) from your structure. By 
the way, the ring shapes of the sugars look twisted, maybe that is a result of 
the produced overlap in the coordinates?

Best regards,
Thomas

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