AmiGO 2: Term Details for "benzodiazepine receptor activity" (GO:0008503)

Notice

Some functionality on this page depends on JavaScript. To fully use the features of AmiGO 2, enable JavaScript in your browser and reload from the landing page.

Term Information

Accession: GO:0008503
Name: benzodiazepine receptor activity
Ontology: molecular_function
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Combining with benzodiazepines, a class of drugs with hypnotic, anxiolytic, anticonvulsive, amnestic and myorelaxant properties, to initiate a change in cell activity. Source: GOC:jl
Comment: Note that this term represents an activity and not a gene product. Consider also annotating to the molecular function terms 'chloride channel activity ; GO:0005254', 'GABA receptor activity ; GO:0016917' and 'inhibitory extracellular ligand-gated ion channel activity ; GO:0005237'.
History: See term history for GO:0008503 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to benzodiazepine receptor activity (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to benzodiazepine receptor activity (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for benzodiazepine receptor activity (excluding "regulates").

Include "regulates"
For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

Filter results

View this term in QuickGO.

Additional external viewing options

OLSVis (interactive)

Additional internal viewing options

GO:0003674 molecular_function
GO:0060089 molecular transducer activity
GO:0038023 signaling receptor activity
GO:0030594 neurotransmitter receptor activity
GO:0008503 benzodiazepine receptor activity

Parents of benzodiazepine receptor activity (GO:0008503)

subject	relation	object
benzodiazepine receptor activity	RO:0004009	benzodiazepine (CHEBI:22720)
benzodiazepine receptor activity	is_a	neurotransmitter receptor activity (GO:0030594)

This term has no children.

GONUTS Add usage comments for this term on the GONUTS wiki.