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<Ndt80> is a <transcription factor> in <Saccharomyces cerevisiae> that activates a set of <genes> needed for progression through <meiosis> and <gametogenesis>. It is encoded by the <NDT80 gene>. Its role links a developmental transition to coordinated <gene expression>, rather than to completion of a single structural event.

The initial 1995 study found that <NDT80 gene> mutants arrested at <pachytene>, a stage of meiotic <prophase>. Their <homologous chromosomes> remained joined by full-length <synaptonemal complexes>. Much of meiotic recombination still occurred, showing that chromosome exchange and progression out of this stage could be experimentally separated.<NDT80, a meiosis-specific gene required for exit from pachytene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by L. Xu and others>[Molecular and Cellular Biology 15, pp. 6572–6581; mutant phenotype and recombination analysis]{ref}

A 1998 study then connected the phenotype to transcriptional control. Producing <Ndt80> outside its normal developmental setting induced target <genes>, while the isolated <protein> bound a conserved upstream <DNA> sequence. The combination of altered <gene expression> and sequence binding supported a direct regulatory role.<Gametogenesis in yeast is regulated by a transcriptional cascade dependent on Ndt80 by S. Chu and others>[Molecular Cell 1, pp. 685–696; ectopic expression and binding by recombinant Ndt80]{ref}

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