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In haploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a complex recombination system regulates mating-type switching and requires one MAT expression locus, two donor cassettes (HML and HMR) and the HO endonuclease that catalyses gene conversion. Zygosaccharomyces rouxii is the most distant species from S. cerevisiae with a functional HO, but with a poorly understood mating-type switching. Here, we described that two subcultures of the type strain CBS 732T underwent the α to a genotype switching leading to mixed MATα and MATa populations. Remarkably, during this event the donor cassette was copied into the MAT locus, except for its own 3΄ end, resulting in a new MATa2 gene copy different from the silenced HMRa2. Moreover, CBS 732T cells bypassed the cell-cycle control, which oversees HO transcription in S. cerevisiae, and expressed HO at the stationary phase. Despite HO dysregulation, mating-type switching seemed to occur rarely or belatedly during CBS 732T colony formation in most of the tested conditions. When morphology and mating behaviour were analysed, two subcultures displayed distinct outcross fertility responses. Overall, our data support that mating-type switching causes genotype instability and phenotypic novelties in CBS 732T, and open the question whether this mechanism is shared by other Z. rouxii haploid homothallic strains.

Mating-type switching in CBS 732T derived subcultures unveils potential genetic and phenotypic novelties in haploid Zygosaccharomyces rouxii