The same illustration with a cartoon effect (Image 2).
The same scene imported by Ludovic Autin and Adam Gardner (Scripps) in Cinema4D thanks the ePMV plugin. An Inverse Kinematic chain has been applied onto the linkers:
The complex comprising MutS (in pink), MutL (in yellow) and MutH (in cyan) is a key intermediate in the DNA mismatch repair (Winkler et al, 2011 PMID: 21454657). In E. coli, MutS recruits MutL and together, by recruiting MutH, signal to MutH and other proteins to start the repair process.