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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 2008;320:137–156. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-75157-1_7

Fig. 6.

Fig. 6

Elongation cycle. The stages of RNA synthesis can be divided into four steps: nucleotide binding (step 1), a conformational-change step, thought to be orientation of the triphosphate for catalysis (step 2), chemistry (step 3), and translocation (step 4)