Category:GO:0005230 ! extracellular ligand-gated ion channel activity

name: extracellular ligand-gated ion channel activity
namespace: molecular_function
def: "Catalysis of the transmembrane transfer of an ion by a channel that opens when a specific extracellular ligand has been bound by the channel complex or one of its constituent parts." [GOC:mtg_transport, ISBN:0815340729]
subset: gosubset_prok
is_a: GO:0015276 ! ligand-gated ion channel activity

AmiGO

Child Terms

This term has the following 5 child terms, out of 5 total.

• [+] GO:0004970 ! ionotropic glutamate receptor activity (3)
• [+] GO:0005231 ! excitatory extracellular ligand-gated ion channel activity (7)
• [+] GO:0005237 ! inhibitory extracellular ligand-gated ion channel activity (2)
• [  ] GO:0036081 ! extracellular ammonia-gated ion channel activity
• [  ] GO:0036082 ! extracellular phenylacetaldehyde-gated ion channel activity

Pages in category "GO:0005230 ! extracellular ligand-gated ion channel activity"

The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 253 total.