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Nutritional regulation of late meiotic events in Saccharomyces cerevisiae through a pathway distinct from initiation.

The IME1 gene is essential for initiation of meiosis in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, although it is not required for growth. Here we report that in stationary-phase cultures containing low concentration of glucose, cells overexpressing IME1 undergo the early meiotic events, including DNA replication, commitment to recombination, and synaptonemal complex formation and dissolution. In contrast, later meiotic events, such as chromosome segregation, commitment to meiosis, and spore formation, do not occur. Thus, nutrients can repress the late stages of meiosis independently of their block of initiation. Cells arrested at this midpoint in meiosis are relatively stable and can resume meiotic differentiation if transferred to sporulation conditions. Resumption of meiosis does not require repression of IME1 expression, since IME1 RNA levels stay high after transfer of the arrested cells to sporulation medium. These results suggest that meiosis in S. cerevisiae is a paradigm of a differentiation pathway regulated by signal transduction at both early and late stages.[1]

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