Figure 3.

Results of a cell microarray-based genome-wide screen for genes participating in the mating-pheromone response pathway. Strains defective in the pathway fail to arrest growth when treated with alpha factor, unlike wild-type cells. The histograms report the average results of two or three replicate growth assays for (a) 28 strains containing deletions of genes known to participate in pheromone response, (b) 38 strains identified from cell microarrays as failing to shmoo properly, (c) 178 strains forming typical shmoos, and (d) 91 strains forming shmoos with a notably enhanced frequency in the cell population. The true-positive alpha factor-response pathway mutants (ASD, arrest+shmoo defective) are well separated from non-pathway mutants. Additional mutant categories identified were those defective only in the shmoo pathway (SD, shmoo defective), and those defective only in the growth arrest pathway (AD, arrest defective). Gene names indicate strains deleted for the corresponding genes.