Zn(II)2Cys6 family transcription factor; positively regulates sterol uptake genes under anaerobic conditions; involved in hypoxic gene expression; represses filamentation-inducing genes during vegetative growth; positively regulates mating with SUT2 by repressing expression of genes that act as mating inhibitors; repressed by STE12; relocalizes from the nucleus to the cytoplasm upon DNA replication stress; SUT1 has a paralog, SUT2, that arose from the whole genome duplication