how to work out curvature of DNA???

[t. j. kappock]

It's not really my area, but they do this kind of thing down the hall in Prof.
D. M. Crothers' lab.

Some recent references, both computational and experimental:

1
AU  - Haran TE
AU  - Kahn JD
AU  - Crothers DM
TI  - Sequence elements responsible for DNA curvature.
SO  - Journal of Molecular Biology 1994 Nov 25;244(2):135-43

2
AU  - Kahn JD
AU  - Crothers DM
TI  - DNA bending in transcription initiation.
SO  - Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 1993;58:115-22

3
AU  - Kahn JD
AU  - Yun E
AU  - Crothers DM
TI  - Detection of localized DNA flexibility.
SO  - Nature 1994 Mar 10;368(6467):163-6

4
AU  - Kahn JD
AU  - Crothers DM
TI  - Protein-induced bending and DNA cyclization.
SO  - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of
      America 1992 Jul 15;89(14):6343-7

5
AU  - Crothers DM
AU  - Drak J
AU  - Kahn JD
AU  - Levene SD
TI  - DNA bending, flexibility, and helical repeat by cyclization
      kinetics.
SO  - Methods in Enzymology 1992;212:3-29

6
AU  - Levene SD
AU  - Crothers DM
TI  - Ring closure probabilities for DNA fragments by Monte Carlo
      simulation.
SO  - Journal of Molecular Biology 1986 May 5;189(1):61-72