What Is Nicked DNA How Can It Be Repaired?

What Is Nicked DNA How Can It Be Repaired? DNA nicks (single-strand breaks) are the most common form of DNA damage. … Nicks are efficiently repaired by the single-strand break repair (SSBR) pathway, which assembles a repair complex at a nick in which X-ray repair cross-complementing protein 1 (XRCC1) is a critical but noncatalytic member