Tailless-like receptors (nomenclature as agreed by the NC-IUPHAR Subcommittee on Nuclear Hormone Receptors [1]) have yet to be officially paired with an endogenous ligand.

* Key recommended reading is highlighted with an asterisk

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* Benoit G, Cooney A, Giguere V, Ingraham H, Lazar M, Muscat G, Perlmann T, Renaud JP, Schwabe J, Sladek F, Tsai MJ, Laudet V. (2006) International Union of Pharmacology. LXVI. Orphan nuclear receptors. Pharmacol Rev, 58 (4): 798-836. [PMID:17132856]

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Huang P, Chandra V, Rastinejad F. (2010) Structural overview of the nuclear receptor superfamily: insights into physiology and therapeutics. Annu Rev Physiol, 72: 247-72. [PMID:20148675]

* O'Leary JD, O'Leary OF, Cryan JF, Nolan YM. (2018) Regulation of behaviour by the nuclear receptor TLX. Genes Brain Behav, 17 (3): e12357. [PMID:27790850]

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2. Griffett K, Bedia-Diaz G, Hegazy L, de Vera IMS, Wanninayake US, Billon C, Koelblen T, Wilhelm ML, Burris TP. (2020) The Orphan Nuclear Receptor TLX Is a Receptor for Synthetic and Natural Retinoids. Cell Chem Biol, 27 (10): 1272-1284.e4. [PMID:32763139]

3. Land PW, Monaghan AP. (2003) Expression of the transcription factor, tailless, is required for formation of superficial cortical layers. Cereb Cortex, 13 (9): 921-31. [PMID:12902391]

4. Monaghan AP, Bock D, Gass P, Schwäger A, Wolfer DP, Lipp HP, Schütz G. (1997) Defective limbic system in mice lacking the tailless gene. Nature, 390 (6659): 515-7. [PMID:9394001]