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BER enzymes prevent abasic sites in duplex DNA from cross-linking by binding tightly to the free abasic sites (AAG, AlkA) or by reacting irreversibly with them (APE1, Nth). An abasic pyrrolidine nucleotide is flipped into the active site of AAG in the structure that is shown.51
