Abstract
The transcription factor NKX2-5 is a highly conserved master regulator of heart development which is widely expressed in cardiac progenitors and cardiomyocytes. Fluorescent reporters of NKX2-5 that minimally perturb normal protein expression can enable the identification, quantification and isolation of NKX2-5-expressing cells in a normal physiological state. Here we report the generation of two new hESC lines with eGFP inserted upstream (5′) or downstream (3′) of NKX2-5, linked by a cleavable T2A peptide. These complementary reporters produce a robust fluorescent signal in cardiac cells and have wide utility particularly for research on developmental biology and disease modelling.
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