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Nuclear hormone receptors

Orphan nuclear receptors
1A. Thyroid Hormone Receptors
1C. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors
1H. Liver X receptor-like receptors
1I. Vitamin D receptor-like receptors
Steroid hormone
Retinoic acid, retinoid X and retinoic acid-related orphan

For information on the nomenclature of these receptors please see reference:
Nuclear Receptors Nomenclature Committee (1999). A unified nomenclature system for the nuclear receptor superfamily. Cell 97, 161-163. [PMID:10219237]

image of a NHR complex bound to DNA
Image generated from the 3D structure PDB entry 3E00.