Extended Data Fig. 6. Hypothetical lesion recognition model for canonical and non canonical lesions.
The figure shows possible lesion recognition strategies for non canonical and canonical NER lesions. Upper panel: When XPD encounters a non canonical crosslink no lesion locking occurs and XPD backtracking can take place. Backtracking pulls XPG across the lesion enabling cutting 5′ to the lesion. Lower panel: canonical lesion encounter enables XPD lesion locking and XPG cutting 3′ to the damage as observed in regular NER.