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Upon a base damage occurs (yellow cycle), most often from oxidation, whereby the base excision repair is triggered and results in a short repaired a patch, single-strand segment (red line). The activity of endonucleases (yellow ring) and remove of the base are depicted at the schematic presentation of BER mechanism in steps (each long arrow shows the steps of BER mechanism).
