AmiGO 2: Term Details for "osmosensor activity" (GO:0005034)

Accession: GO:0005034
Name: osmosensor activity
Ontology: molecular_function
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Sensing extracellular osmolarity to initiate a change in cell activity, and spanning the membrane of the cell. Source: GOC:dph, GOC:tb
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0005034 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to osmosensor activity (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to osmosensor activity (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for osmosensor activity (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
osmosensor activity	is_a	small molecule sensor activity (GO:0140299)
osmosensor activity	is_a	transmembrane signaling receptor activity (GO:0004888)

subject	relation	object
osmolarity-sensing monoatomic cation channel activity (GO:1990760)	is_a	osmosensor activity

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