bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.05.450958; this version posted July 5, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Cyp26b1 restrains murine heart valve growth during development Neha Ahuja1†, Max S. Hiltabidle1†, Hariprem Rajasekhar2, Haley R. Barlow1, Edward Daniel3, Sophie Voss1, Ondine Cleaver1* and Caitlin Maynard4* 1Departments of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, Texas, USA 75390, 2Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, One Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick, NJ, USA 08901, 3John T. Milliken Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, 4960 Children’s Place, Suite 6602, St. Louis, MO 63110, and 4Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas, USA, 75080 † These authors contributed equally. * Co-corresponding authors: Ondine Cleaver, PhD Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., NA8.300 Dallas, Texas 75390-9148, USA. Phone: (214) 648-1647 Fax: (214) 648-1196 E-mail:
[email protected] Caitlin Maynard, PhD Department of Biological Sciences The University of Texas at Dallas 800 W. Campbell Road, FO31 Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA Phone: (972) 883-6895 Email:
[email protected] Running title: Cyp26b1 essential for murine heart valve development Keywords: Cyp26b1, endothelial cell proliferation, aortic valve, pulmonary valve, tricuspid valve, mitral valve 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.05.450958; this version posted July 5, 2021.