The Fission Yeast Mating-Type Switching Motto: "One-for-Two" and "Two-for-One"

• Published in: Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews Vol. 87; no. 1; p. e0000821
• Main Authors: Arcangioli, Benoît, Gangloff, Serge
• Format: Journal Article Publication
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society for Microbiology 21.03.2023
• Series: Sex in Fungi
• Subjects: Chromatin; Conjugation; Diploids; DNA biosynthesis; DNA repair; DNA Replication; Environmental conditions; Epigenetics; Fission; Genetics and Molecular Biology; Heterochromatin; Life Sciences; Mating; Mating types; Meiosis; Recombination; Reproduction - genetics; Reproductive Biology; Review; Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics; Schizosaccharomyces - genetics; Schizosaccharomyces - metabolism; Sex; Sex determination; Sex ratio; Sexual reproduction; Special Series: Sex in Fungi; Switching; Yeast; Yeasts; DNA replication; fission yeast; DNA recombination; heterochromatin

Schizosaccharomyces pombe is an ascomycete fungus that divides by medial fission; it is thus commonly referred to as fission yeast, as opposed to the distantly related budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The reproductive lifestyle of S. pombe relies on an efficient genetic sex determination syst...