EMBO Workshop on DNA Curvature and Bending

FIGURE 1.9 Definitions of various base translations. The translations involve two bases of a pair (upper two rows) or two successive base pairs (bottom row). In the top row the motions of the two bases are coordinated, and in the middle row their motions are opposed. Columns at left, center, and right describe translations along the z, y, and a axes, respectively. The standard coordinate frame is defined at the upper left. From EMBO Workshop on DNA Curvature and Bending (1989). EMBO. 8, 1-4, with permission of Oxford University Press. 

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