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Molecular and Cellular Biology, October 1998, p. 5750-5761, Vol. 18, No. 10
0270-7306/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

NDT80 and the Meiotic Recombination Checkpoint Regulate Expression of Middle Sporulation-Specific Genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Shelley R. Hepworth,1,dagger Helena Friesen,1 and Jacqueline Segall1,2,*

Department of Biochemistry1 and Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics,2 University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8

Received 13 May 1998/Returned for modification 24 June 1998/Accepted 21 July 1998

Distinct classes of sporulation-specific genes are sequentially expressed during the process of spore formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The transition from expression of early meiotic genes to expression of middle sporulation-specific genes occurs at about the time that cells exit from pachytene and form the meiosis I spindle. To identify genes encoding potential regulators of middle sporulation-specific gene expression, we screened for mutants that expressed early meiotic genes but failed to express middle sporulation-specific genes. We identified mutant alleles of RPD3, SIN3, and NDT80 in this screen. Rpd3p, a histone deacetylase, and Sin3p are global modulators of gene expression. Ndt80p promotes entry into the meiotic divisions. We found that entry into the meiotic divisions was not required for activation of middle sporulation genes; these genes were efficiently expressed in a clb1 clb3 clb4 strain, which fails to enter the meiotic divisions due to reduced Clb-dependent activation of Cdc28p kinase. In contrast, middle sporulation genes were not expressed in a dmc1 strain, which fails to enter the meiotic divisions because a defect in meiotic recombination leads to a RAD17-dependent checkpoint arrest. Expression of middle sporulation genes, as well as entry into the meiotic divisions, was restored to a dmc1 strain by mutation of RAD17. Our studies also revealed that NDT80 was a temporally distinct, pre-middle sporulation gene and that its expression was reduced, but not abolished, on mutation of DMC1, RPD3, SIN3, or NDT80 itself. In summary, our data indicate that Ndt80p is required for expression of middle sporulation genes and that the activity of Ndt80p is controlled by the meiotic recombination checkpoint. Thus, middle genes are expressed only on completion of meiotic recombination and subsequent generation of an active form of Ndt80p.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8. Phone: (416) 978-4981. Fax: (416) 978-8548. E-mail: j.segall{at}utoronto.ca.

dagger Present address: Department of Molecular Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, October 1998, p. 5750-5761, Vol. 18, No. 10
0270-7306/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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