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Accession
GO:0005234
Name
extracellularly glutamate-gated ion channel activity
Ontology
molecular_function
Synonyms
extracellular-glutamate-gated ion channel activity
Alternate IDs
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Definition
Enables the transmembrane transfer of an ion by a channel that opens when glutamate is bound by the channel complex or one of its constituent parts on the extracellular side of the plasma membrane. Source: GOC:mtg_transport, ISBN:0815340729
Comment
Note that this term represents an activity and not a gene product. Consider also annotating to the molecular function term 'glutamate receptor activity ; GO:0008066'.
History
See term history for GO:0005234 at QuickGO
Chem. react.
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Subset
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Parents of extracellularly glutamate-gated ion channel activity (GO:0005234)
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extracellularly glutamate-gated ion channel activity [is_a relation] is_a  excitatory extracellular ligand-gated monoatomic ion channel activity (GO:0005231)
Children of extracellularly glutamate-gated ion channel activity (GO:0005234)
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extracellularly glutamate-gated chloride channel activity (GO:0008068) [is_a relation] is_a  extracellularly glutamate-gated ion channel activity
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