The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: G protein‐coupled receptors

Stephen P. H. Alexander, Anthony P. Davenport, Eamonn Kelly, Alasdair J. Gibb, Alistair A. Mathie, Chloe J. Peach, Emma L. Veale, Jane F. Armstrong, Elena Faccenda, Simon D. Harding, Christopher Southan, Jamie A. Davies, Maria Pia Abbracchio, George R. Abraham, Alexander Agoulnik, Wayne Alexander, Khaled Al‐hosaini, Magnus Bäck, Jillian G. Baker, Nicholas M. Barnes, Ross Bathgate, Jean‐Martin Beaulieu, Annette G. Beck‐Sickinger, Maik Behrens, Kirstie A. Bennett, Kenneth E. Bernstein, Bernhard Bettler, Nigel J. M. Birdsall, Victoria A. Blaho, Pascal Bonaventure, Francois Boulay, Corinne Bousquet, Hans Bräuner‐Osborne, Andrew J. Brown, Geoffrey Burnstock, Marta Busnelli, Girolamo Caló, Vanni Caruso, Justo P. Castaño, Kevin J. Catt, Stefania Ceruti, Paul Chazot, Nan Chiang, Bice Chini, Arthur Christopoulos, Jerold Chun, Antonia Cianciulli, Olivier Civelli, Lucie H. Clapp, Réjean Couture, Helen M. Cox, Zsolt Csaba, Claes Dahlgren, Frank M. Dautzenberg, Gordon Dent, Steven D. Douglas, Pascal Dournaud, Margarita L. Dubocovich, Satoru Eguchi, Emanuel Escher, Edward J. Filardo, Tung Fong, Huamei Fu Forsman, Marta Fumagalli, Raul R. Gainetdinov, Michael L. Garelja, Marc de Gasparo, Florence Gbahou, Craig Gerard, Marvin Gershengorn, Michelle Glass, David E. Gloriam, Fernand Gobeil, Theodore L. Goodfriend, Cyril Goudet, Lukas Grätz, Karen J. Gregory, Christian Gruber, Andrew L. Gundlach, Jörg Hamann, Julien Hanson, Deborah S. Hartman, Richard L. Hauger, Debbie L. Hay, Akos Heinemann, Laura Heitman, Deron R. Herr, Morley D. Hollenberg, Nicholas D. Holliday, Birgitte Holst, Mastgugu Horiuchi, Daniel Hoyer, László Hunyady, Ahsan Husain, Adriaan P. IJzerman, Tadashi Inagami, Paul A. Insel, Kenneth A. Jacobson, Laura H. Jacobson, Robert T. Jensen, Ralf Jockers, Deepa Jonnalagadda, Sadashiva Karnik, Klemens Kaupmann, Jacqueline Kemp, Charles Kennedy, Yasuyuki Kihara, Julia Kinsolving, Takio Kitazawa, Pawel Kozielewicz, Hans‐Jürgen Kreienkamp, Jyrki P. Kukkonen, Luxmichan Laishram, Tobias Langenhan, Christopher J. Langmead, Dan Larhammar, Katie Leach, Davide Lecca, John D. Lee, Susan E. Leeman, Jérôme Leprince, Rob Leurs, Xaria X. Li, Ines Liebscher, Stephen J. Lolait, Amelie Lupp, Robyn Macrae, Janet J. Maguire, Davide Malfacini, Maurice Manning, Davide Marangon, Kirill Martemyanov, Jean Mazella, Craig A. McArdle, Shlomo Melmed, Martin C. Michel, Laurence J. Miller, Vincenzo Mitolo, Bernard Mouillac, Christa E. Müller, Philip M. Murphy, Jean‐Louis Nahon, Richard R. Neubig, Tony Ngo, Xavier Norel, Duuamene Nyimanu, Anne‐Marie O’Carroll, Stefan Offermanns, Maria Antonietta Panaro, Marc Parmentier, Nicole Perry‐Hauser, Roger G. Pertwee, Jean‐Philippe Pin, Eric R. Prossnitz, Helena Chengxue Qin, Mark Quinn, Stefano Raffaele, Rithwik Ramachandran, Manisha Ray, Rainer K. Reinscheid, Alejandro Romeral Buzón, Philippe Rondard, Mette M. Rosenkilde, G. Enrico Rovati, Chiara Ruzza, Gareth J. Sanger, Nicole Scholz, Torsten Schöneberg, Gunnar Schulte, Stefan Schulz, Deborah L. Segaloff, Charles N. Serhan, Arun K. Shukla, Khuraijam Dhanachandra Singh, Craig M. Smith, Nicola J. Smith, Claudia Stäubert, Leigh A. Stoddart, Yukihiko Sugimoto, Roger Summers, Valerie P. Tan, David M. Thal, Walter ( Wally) Thomas, Pieter B. M. W. M. Timmermans, Kalyan Tirupula, Lawrence Toll, Giovanni Tulipano, Hamiyet Unal, Thomas Unger, Celine Valant, Patrick Vanderheyden, David Vaudry, Hubert Vaudry, Joseph G. Verbalis, Jean‐Pierre Vilardaga, Christopher S. Walker, Ji Ming Wang, Donald T. Ward, Hans‐Jürgen Wester, Gary B. Willars, Tom Lloyd Williams, Trent M. Woodruff, Huixian Wu, Cheng Yang, Chengcan Yao, Richard D. Ye and Nathan Zaidman 2025. The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: G protein‐coupled receptors. British Journal of Pharmacology. 182 (S1), pp. S24-S151. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.70230

Title	The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: G protein‐coupled receptors
Authors	Stephen P. H. Alexander, Anthony P. Davenport, Eamonn Kelly, Alasdair J. Gibb, Alistair A. Mathie, Chloe J. Peach, Emma L. Veale, Jane F. Armstrong, Elena Faccenda, Simon D. Harding, Christopher Southan, Jamie A. Davies, Maria Pia Abbracchio, George R. Abraham, Alexander Agoulnik, Wayne Alexander, Khaled Al‐hosaini, Magnus Bäck, Jillian G. Baker, Nicholas M. Barnes, Ross Bathgate, Jean‐Martin Beaulieu, Annette G. Beck‐Sickinger, Maik Behrens, Kirstie A. Bennett, Kenneth E. Bernstein, Bernhard Bettler, Nigel J. M. Birdsall, Victoria A. Blaho, Pascal Bonaventure, Francois Boulay, Corinne Bousquet, Hans Bräuner‐Osborne, Andrew J. Brown, Geoffrey Burnstock, Marta Busnelli, Girolamo Caló, Vanni Caruso, Justo P. Castaño, Kevin J. Catt, Stefania Ceruti, Paul Chazot, Nan Chiang, Bice Chini, Arthur Christopoulos, Jerold Chun, Antonia Cianciulli, Olivier Civelli, Lucie H. Clapp, Réjean Couture, Helen M. Cox, Zsolt Csaba, Claes Dahlgren, Frank M. Dautzenberg, Gordon Dent, Steven D. Douglas, Pascal Dournaud, Margarita L. Dubocovich, Satoru Eguchi, Emanuel Escher, Edward J. Filardo, Tung Fong, Huamei Fu Forsman, Marta Fumagalli, Raul R. Gainetdinov, Michael L. Garelja, Marc de Gasparo, Florence Gbahou, Craig Gerard, Marvin Gershengorn, Michelle Glass, David E. Gloriam, Fernand Gobeil, Theodore L. Goodfriend, Cyril Goudet, Lukas Grätz, Karen J. Gregory, Christian Gruber, Andrew L. Gundlach, Jörg Hamann, Julien Hanson, Deborah S. Hartman, Richard L. Hauger, Debbie L. Hay, Akos Heinemann, Laura Heitman, Deron R. Herr, Morley D. Hollenberg, Nicholas D. Holliday, Birgitte Holst, Mastgugu Horiuchi, Daniel Hoyer, László Hunyady, Ahsan Husain, Adriaan P. IJzerman, Tadashi Inagami, Paul A. Insel, Kenneth A. Jacobson, Laura H. Jacobson, Robert T. Jensen, Ralf Jockers, Deepa Jonnalagadda, Sadashiva Karnik, Klemens Kaupmann, Jacqueline Kemp, Charles Kennedy, Yasuyuki Kihara, Julia Kinsolving, Takio Kitazawa, Pawel Kozielewicz, Hans‐Jürgen Kreienkamp, Jyrki P. Kukkonen, Luxmichan Laishram, Tobias Langenhan, Christopher J. Langmead, Dan Larhammar, Katie Leach, Davide Lecca, John D. Lee, Susan E. Leeman, Jérôme Leprince, Rob Leurs, Xaria X. Li, Ines Liebscher, Stephen J. Lolait, Amelie Lupp, Robyn Macrae, Janet J. Maguire, Davide Malfacini, Maurice Manning, Davide Marangon, Kirill Martemyanov, Jean Mazella, Craig A. McArdle, Shlomo Melmed, Martin C. Michel, Laurence J. Miller, Vincenzo Mitolo, Bernard Mouillac, Christa E. Müller, Philip M. Murphy, Jean‐Louis Nahon, Richard R. Neubig, Tony Ngo, Xavier Norel, Duuamene Nyimanu, Anne‐Marie O’Carroll, Stefan Offermanns, Maria Antonietta Panaro, Marc Parmentier, Nicole Perry‐Hauser, Roger G. Pertwee, Jean‐Philippe Pin, Eric R. Prossnitz, Helena Chengxue Qin, Mark Quinn, Stefano Raffaele, Rithwik Ramachandran, Manisha Ray, Rainer K. Reinscheid, Alejandro Romeral Buzón, Philippe Rondard, Mette M. Rosenkilde, G. Enrico Rovati, Chiara Ruzza, Gareth J. Sanger, Nicole Scholz, Torsten Schöneberg, Gunnar Schulte, Stefan Schulz, Deborah L. Segaloff, Charles N. Serhan, Arun K. Shukla, Khuraijam Dhanachandra Singh, Craig M. Smith, Nicola J. Smith, Claudia Stäubert, Leigh A. Stoddart, Yukihiko Sugimoto, Roger Summers, Valerie P. Tan, David M. Thal, Walter ( Wally) Thomas, Pieter B. M. W. M. Timmermans, Kalyan Tirupula, Lawrence Toll, Giovanni Tulipano, Hamiyet Unal, Thomas Unger, Celine Valant, Patrick Vanderheyden, David Vaudry, Hubert Vaudry, Joseph G. Verbalis, Jean‐Pierre Vilardaga, Christopher S. Walker, Ji Ming Wang, Donald T. Ward, Hans‐Jürgen Wester, Gary B. Willars, Tom Lloyd Williams, Trent M. Woodruff, Huixian Wu, Cheng Yang, Chengcan Yao, Richard D. Ye and Nathan Zaidman
Abstract	The Concise Guide to Pharmacology 2025/26 marks the seventh edition in this series of biennial publications in the British Journal of Pharmacology. Presented in landscape format, the guide provides a comparative overview of the pharmacology of drug target families. The concise nature of the Concise Guide refers to the style of presentation, being clear, accessible, and well-structured, rather than the scope of the content, which spans approximately 500 pages. The Concise Guide summarises the key pharmacological properties of around 1900 human drug targets, and nearly 7000 interactions, involving around 4400 ligands. While the content is a substantially condensed version of the more detailed information and links available at the www.guidetopharmacology.org website, the printed guide serves as a permanent, citable, point-in-time record, that remains stable despite ongoing updates to the online database. The full contents of this publication can be found at https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.70230. The Concise Guides provide expert-curated recommendations of ‘Gold Standard’ selective pharmacological tools, available either commercially or as donations, which enable the identification of individual drug targets or families of drug targets. While the Concise Guide offers a more streamlined overview, more comprehensive information, including detailed pharmacological profiles and links to multiple online databases, is available through the Guide to Pharmacology website. The 2025/26 edition of the Concise Guide is based on material current as of mid-2025, and supersedes all previous editions, including the 2023/24 Guide, and earlier Guides to Receptors and Channels. It is produced in close conjunction with the Nomenclature and Standards Committee of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (NC-IUPHAR), and as such provides official IUPHAR classification and nomenclature for human drug targets, where applicable. G protein-coupled receptors are one of the six major pharmacological targets into which the Guide is divided, with the others being: ion channels, nuclear hormone receptors, catalytic receptors, enzymes and transporters. Each section includes nomenclature guidance, concise summaries, information of the best available pharmacological tools, key references, and suggestions for further reading.
Journal	British Journal of Pharmacology
Journal citation	182 (S1), pp. S24-S151
ISSN	0007-1188
	1476-5381
Year	2025
Publisher	British Pharmacological Society
	Wiley
Publisher's version	British J Pharmacology - 2026 - Alexander - The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025 26 G protein‐coupled receptors.pdf License CC BY 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.70230
Web address (URL)	https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.70230
Publication dates
Published	29 Dec 2025

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The Concise Guide to Pharmacology 2025/26 marks the seventh edition in this series of biennial publications in the British Journal of Pharmacology. Presented in landscape format, the guide provides a comparative overview of the pharmacology of drug target families. The concise nature of the Concise Guide refers to the style of presentation, being clear, accessible, and well-structured, rather than the scope of the content, which spans approximately 500 pages. The Concise Guide summarises the key pharmacological properties of around 1900 human drug targets, and nearly 7000 interactions, involving around 4400 ligands. While the content is a substantially condensed version of the more detailed information and links available at the www.guidetopharmacology.org website, the printed guide serves as a permanent, citable, point-in-time record, that remains stable despite ongoing updates to the online database. The full contents of this publication can be found at https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.70230.

The Concise Guides provide expert-curated recommendations of ‘Gold Standard’ selective pharmacological tools, available either commercially or as donations, which enable the identification of individual drug targets or families of drug targets. While the Concise Guide offers a more streamlined overview, more comprehensive information, including detailed pharmacological profiles and links to multiple online databases, is available through the Guide to Pharmacology website. The 2025/26 edition of the Concise Guide is based on material current as of mid-2025, and supersedes all previous editions, including the 2023/24 Guide, and earlier Guides to Receptors and Channels. It is produced in close conjunction with the Nomenclature and Standards Committee of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (NC-IUPHAR), and as such provides official IUPHAR classification and nomenclature for human drug targets, where applicable.

G protein-coupled receptors are one of the six major pharmacological targets into which the Guide is divided, with the others being: ion channels, nuclear hormone receptors, catalytic receptors, enzymes and transporters. Each section includes nomenclature guidance, concise summaries, information of the best available pharmacological tools, key references, and suggestions for further reading.

Journal

British Journal of Pharmacology

Journal citation

182 (S1), pp. S24-S151

ISSN

0007-1188

1476-5381

Year

2025

Publisher

British Pharmacological Society

Wiley

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British J Pharmacology - 2026 - Alexander - The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025 26 G protein‐coupled receptors.pdf

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CC BY 4.0

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Open (open metadata and files)

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https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.70230

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https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.70230

Publication dates

Published

29 Dec 2025

The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: G protein‐coupled receptors

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