Fig. 6
Fig. 6 Cardiac induction requires GATA activity in zebrafish. Flat mounts: dorsal views. (A) nkx2.5 expression at 5 somites requires GATA5 and redundantly GATA4 and GATA6. The loss of GATA4 and/or GATA6 alone has little effect on the initiation of nkx2.5. (B) GATA4 expression at 5 somites requires GATA5 and redundantly GATA6. GATA4 is also required to maintain its own expression (B). Hrt/tbx20 expression is lost in the GATA5 and 6 double morphants (C) as is Tbx5 expression at 10 somites (D). (E) nkx2.7 expression remains unchanged in embryos injected with GATA5 and 6 morpholino. Note that GATA5 and 6 double morphants knock out GATA4 expression and therefore represent a triple knockdown. The black bracket indicates the cardiac expression.
Reprinted from Developmental Biology, 311(2), Peterkin, T., Gibson, A., and Patient, R., Redundancy and evolution of GATA factor requirements in development of the myocardium, 623-635, Copyright (2007) with permission from Elsevier. Full text @ Dev. Biol.