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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bioessays. 2018 Feb 6;40(3):10.1002/bies.201700208. doi: 10.1002/bies.201700208

Figure 3. Possible translocation processes.

Figure 3

a) CMG alternates between the compact and extended conformers (PDB 3JC5, and 3JC7). b) Inchworm process proposed for movements between the N- tier and C-tier (N-tier in solid red, because it directly contributes to translocation by binding DNA). c) Inchworm process proposed for planar to spiral movments solely in the C-tier (N-tier shown in light blue, because it is a processivitiy ring and does not participate in inchworm translocation).