AmiGO 2: Term Details for "metal ion binding" (GO:0046872)

Accession: GO:0046872
Name: metal ion binding
Ontology: molecular_function
Synonyms: metal binding, heavy metal binding
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Binding to a metal ion. Source: GOC:ai
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0046872 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: goslim_metagenomics; goslim_drosophila; goslim_flybase_ribbon; goslim_agr
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to metal ion binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to metal ion binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for metal ion binding (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
metal ion binding	is_a	cation binding (GO:0043169)
metal ion binding	RO:0004009	metal cation (CHEBI:25213)

subject	relation	object
magnesium ion binding (GO:0000287)	is_a	metal ion binding
metallochaperone activity (GO:0016530)	BFO:0000051	metal ion binding
metal chelating activity (GO:0046911)	is_a	metal ion binding
transition metal ion binding (GO:0046914)	is_a	metal ion binding
alkali metal ion binding (GO:0031420)	is_a	metal ion binding
metal ion sequestering activity (GO:0140487)	BFO:0000051	metal ion binding
calcium ion binding (GO:0005509)	is_a	metal ion binding
lead ion binding (GO:0032791)	is_a	metal ion binding

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