Orphan GPCR Panel
DiscoveRx Services offers a comprehensive portfolio of cell-based functional orphan GPCR assays for deorphanization and specificity determination. This panel utilizes DiscoveRx's arrestin recruitment technology to enable identification of GPCR activation regardless of G-protein coupling and is a powerful solution for identifying novel ligand and receptor pairings.
Panel Highlights and Benefits
- Comprehensive - more than 76 orphan GPCRs
- Single assay readout facilitates data comparison across assays
- Ideal for novel ligand identification & receptor de-orphanization
- Accurate, precise & reproducible data
- Broad applications - including de-orphanization programs and specificity determination
- Assays performed in duplicate
Performance
- Arrestin orphan panel successfully used to de-orphanize many GPCRs
- 12 targets uniquely identified or verified using the arrestin platform
- Customer validated - 11 novel target interactions identified using orphan GPCR panel
- 27% of targets have produced hits
Summary of DiscoveRx De-orphanization Efforts
Graph indicates the results of DiscoveRx ligand deorphanization efforts: 12 receptors fully de-orphanized; 5 hits in profiles; 6 hits in panels; 63 no ligand identified.
Reproducibility
The panels have been validated for exceptional reproducibility to ensure comparable results from test to test. All targets are sequence verified and correct expression confirmed by protein blot. GPCR expression is confirmed independently during panel testing.
Listed below are the assays currently available for screening and profiling. Assays may be sorted by column name.
Contact us if you don't see your target of interest in the list below as additional catalog assays may be available for screening and profiling as a custom service.
| Family ▲ | Target Gene | Common Name | Species | G protein coupling | GenBank Accession # |
| Class A Orphan | GPR55 | GPR55 | Human | Unknown | NM_005683.3 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR84 | GPR84 | Human | Gi/Go | NM_020370 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR91 | SUCNR1 | Human | Unknown | NM_033050 |
| Class A Orphan | CCRL2 | CCRL2 | Human | Unknown | NM_003965 |
| Class A Orphan | GHSR1b | GHSR1b | Human | Unknown | NM_004122 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR101 | GPR101 | Human | Unknown | NM_054021 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR12 | GPR12 | Human | Unknown | NM_005288 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR132 | GPR132 | Human | Unknown | NM_013345 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR135 | GPR135 | Human | Unknown | NM_022571 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR139 | GPR139 | Human | Unknown | NM_171791 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR141 | GPR141 | Human | Unknown | NM_181791 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR142 | GPR142 | Human | Unknown | NM_181790 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR146 | GPR146 | Human | Unknown | NM_138445 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR148 | GPR148 | Human | Unknown | XM_293092 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR149 | GPR149 | Human | Unknown | XM_293580 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR15 | GPR15 | Human | Unknown | NM_005290.1 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR150 | GPR150 | Human | Unknown | XM_209675 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR151 | GPR151 | Human | Unknown | NM_194251 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR152 | GPR152 | Human | Unknown | XM_352045 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR161 | GPR161 | Human | Unknown | NM_153832.1 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR162 | GPR162 | Human | Unknown | NM_019858 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR17 | GPR17 | Human | Unknown | NM_005291 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR171 | GPR171 | Human | Unknown | NM_013308 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR173 | GPR173 | Human | Unknown | NM_018969 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR176 | GPR176 | Human | Unknown | NM_007223 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR18 | GPR18 | Human | Unknown | NM_005292 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR182 | GPR182 | Human | Unknown | NM_007264 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR20 | GPR20 | Human | Unknown | NM_005293 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR23 | LPA4 | Human | Unknown | NM_005296 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR25 | GPR25 | Human | Unknown | NM_005298 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR26 | GPR26 | Human | Unknown | NM_153442 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR27 | GPR27 | Human | Unknown | NM_018971 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR3 | GPR3 | Human | Unknown | NM_005281 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR31 | GPR31 | Human | Unknown | NM_005299 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR32 | GPR32 | Human | Unknown | NM_001506 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR37 | EDNRBL | Human | Unknown | NM_005302 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR37L1 | GPR37L1 | Human | Unknown | NM_004767 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR39 | GPR39 | Human | Gq | NM_001508 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR4 | GPR4 | Human | Unknown | NM_005282 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR45 | GPR45 | Human | Unknown | NM_007227 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR50 | GPR50 | Human | Unknown | NM_004224 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR52 | GPR52 | Human | Unknown | NM_005684 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR6 | GPR6 | Human | Unknown | NM_005284 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR61 | GPR61 | Human | Unknown | NM_031936 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR65 | GPR65 | Human | Unknown | NM_003608 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR75 | GPR75 | Human | Unknown | NM_006794 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR78 | GPR78 | Human | Unknown | NM_080819 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR79 | GPR79 | Human | Unknown | NM_001272 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR83 | GPR83 | Human | Unknown | NM_016540 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR85 | GPR85 | Human | Unknown | NM_018970 |
| Class A Orphan | GPR88 | GPR88 | Human | Unknown | NM_022049 |
| Class A Orphan | LGR4 | LGR4 | Human | Unknown | NM_018490 |
| Class A Orphan | LGR5 | LGR5 | Human | Unknown | NM_003667 |
| Class A Orphan | LGR6 | LGR6 | Human | Unknown | XM_097508 |
| Class A Orphan | MRGPRD | MRGPRD | Human | Unknown | NM_198923 |
| Class A Orphan | MRGPRE | MRGPRE | Human | Unknown | XM_171536 |
| Class A Orphan | MRGPRF | MRGPRF | Human | Unknown | NM_145015 |
| Class A Orphan | MRGPRX1 | MRGPRX1 | Human | Gq | NM_147199 |
| Class A Orphan | MRGPRX4 | MRGPRX4 | Human | Unknown | NM_054032 |
| Class A Orphan | OPN5 | OPN5 | Human | Unknown | NM_181744.2 |
| Class A Orphan | OXGR1 | OXGR1 | Human | Gq | NM_080818.3 |
| Class A Orphan | P2RY8 | P2RY8 | Human | Unknown | NM_178129 |
| Class A Orphan | TAAR5 | TAAR5 | Human | Unknown | NM_003967.2 |
| Class B Orphan | BAI1 | BAI1 | Human | unknown | NM_001702.2 |
| Class B Orphan | BAI2 | BAI2 | Human | unknown | NM_001703.2 |
| Class B Orphan | BAI3 | BAI3 | Human | unknown | NM_001704.2 |
| Class B Orphan | GPR123 | GPR123 | Human | Unknown | NM_001083909 |
| Class B Orphan | GPR157 | GPR157 | Human | Unknown | NM_024980 |
| Class B Orphan | GPR97 | GPR97 | Human | Unknown | NM_170776 |
| Estrogen (G protein coupled) receptor | GPR30 | GPER | Human | Gi/Go & Gs | NM_001505 |
| Hydroxycarboxylic acid | GPR81 | HCA1 | Human | Gi/Go | NM_032554 |
| Non-signalling 7TM chemokine-binding proteins | DARC | FY | Human | Unknown | NM_002027 |
| Other 7TM proteins | GPR107 | GPR107 | Human | Unknown | NM_020960 |
| Other 7TM proteins | GPR137 | TM7SF1 | Human | Unknown | NM_003272 |
| Other 7TM proteins | GPR143 | GPR143 | Human | Unknown | NM_000273 |
| Peptide P518 receptor | GPR103 | QRFPR | Human | Gq | NM_198179 |