extracellularly glutamate-gated ion channel activity

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Nameextracellularly glutamate-gated ion channel activity
IDGO_0005234
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Molecular function

Exact synonym

extracellular-glutamate-gated ion channel activity

Description

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.

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'.

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