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Cellular impermeability associated with sporulating cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is caused by a rapid increase in the medium pH. Three factors have been identified as being important in regulating the rise in medium pH: 1) the cell density, 2) the potassium acetate concentration of the sporulation medium, and 3) and initial pH below 6.0. Sporulation conditions were established for strain 4579 which resulted in optimum uptake of 3H-adenine at T7, a period when the cells would be normally impermeable. Pulse-labeled polysomal RNA was characterized at T4 in naturally permeable cells of strain SK-1 and impermeable cells which required manipulation of the medium pH to facilitate uptake. Transfer ribonucleic acid (RNA), poly A-containing RNA and ribosomal RNA were synthesized in both cultures during the 20 min pulse. Furthermore, the rate of ribosomal RNA synthesis and processing into functional ribosomes approached the rate reported for vegetative cells. Initial sporulation conditions which caused a prolonged delay in the rise in medium pH adversely affected the kinetics of appearance and number of ascospores. The affect was shown to be on meiotic events since a reduction of sporulation was always accompanied by a reduction in the amount of intragenic recombination.
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Mills, D., Schiller, M. & Petryna, M.M. Characteristics of pulse-labeled ribonucleic acid in relation to medium pH and acetate concentration during meiosis of yeast. Molec. Gen. Genet. 156, 71–78 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00272254
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