Using a secreted HaloTag fusion of ADGRL4’s extracellular domains as bait, the authors also affinity-purified proteins from U87-glioblastoma-cell-line-conditioned medium, and by mass spectrometry identified the first candidate ADGRL4 ligands: Ku80 (a nuclear DNA-repair protein) and erythrocyte β-spectrin (a cytoskeletal protein)61. This evidence concerns the gene XRCC5 and glioblastoma.