Benzo [a]pyrene (BaP), a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, is the major cause of lung cancer. BaP forms covalent DNA adducts after metabolic activation and induces mutations. We have developed a method for capturing oligonucleotides carrying bulky base adducts, including UV-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) and BaP diol epoxide-deoxyguanosine (BPDE-dG), which are removed from the genome by nucleotide excision repair. The isolated oligonucleotides are ligated to adaptors, and after damage-specific immunoprecipitation, the adaptor-ligated oligonucleotides are converted to dsDNA with an appropriate translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) polymerase, followed by PCR amplification and next-generation sequencing (NGS) to generate genome-wide repair maps. We have termed this method translesion excision repair-sequencing (tXR-seq). In contrast to our previously described XR-seq method, tXR-seq does not depend on repair/removal of the damage in the excised oligonucleotides, and thus it is applicable to essentially all DNA damages processed by nucleotide excision repair. Here we present the excision repair maps for CPDs and BPDE-dG adducts generated by tXR-Seq for the human genome. In addition, we report the sequence specificity of BPDE-dG excision repair using tXR-seq. N ucleotide excision repair is a versatile repair pathway that removes a variety of DNA damages, including UV-and benzo[a]pyrene (BaP)-induced DNA damages. BaP, a widespread carcinogen, is the major cause of lung cancer (1). It is produced by incomplete combustion of organic materials and converted to the ultimate mutagen, BaP diol epoxide (BPDE), through enzymatic metabolism (2). BPDE preferentially forms bulky covalent DNA adducts at N2 position of guanines and causes mutations if these BPDE-deoxyguanosines (BPDE-dGs) are not efficiently eliminated by nucleotide excision repair (3). Various methods of varying resolutions have been developed for mapping DNA damage and repair genome-wide (4-9). We previously reported a method, termed excision repair-sequencing (XR-seq), for mapping nucleotide excision repair (6). This method has been used to generate excision repair maps for UV-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) and (6-4)pyrimidine-pyrimidone photoproducts [(6-4)PPs], as well as cisplatin and oxaliplatin-induced Pt-d(GpG) diadducts for the human genome and CPDs for the Escherichia coli genome (10-12).Although the XR-seq method has been quite useful in determining the effects of various factors, such as genetic background, transcription, posttranscriptional histone modification, and chromatin states, on the timing and efficiency of repair (13), the method in its original form requires the reversal of damage in the excised oligonucleotide (26-27 mers in humans and 12-13 mers in E. coli) by enzymatic or chemical means before it can be processed for nextgeneration sequencing (NGS) and generation of repair maps. As such, this method has limitations, because it is not possible to reverse, either enzymatically or chemically, most DNA lesions removed f...