... species, during enzymatic processing of endo-genous DNA lesions, and as a result of aberrant DNAtopoisomerase I activity (reviewed in [1,2]). Many of the SSBs arise as a consequence of loss of the ... in assembly and stability of such complexes.Therefore, as recently reported, disruption of the inter-action of XRCC1 with PNK or Pol b leads to defici-ency in accumulation of PNK and Pol b in ... include identifica-tion of these lesions as a strand break, verification of the nature of the 3¢ end, and identification of a satis-factory pathway for repair. The XRCC1 component of the XRCC1–DNA ligase...