The Adhesion family forms a large branch of the pharmacologically important superfamily of
G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs). As Adhesion GPCRs increasingly receive attention
from a wide spectrum of biomedical fields, the Adhesion GPCR Consortium, together with
the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology Committee on Receptor
Nomenclature and Drug Classification, proposes a unified nomenclature for Adhesion
GPCRs. The new names have ADGR as common dominator followed by a letter and a …