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A fraction of the covalently closed mitochondrial DNA in mouse L cells contains a replicated heavy-strand segment that is hydrogen bonded to the circular light strand. The inserted single strand is dissociable from the circular duplex at an elevated temperature.
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Kasamatsu et al. (1971) studied this question.
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