Category:GO:0005231 ! excitatory extracellular ligand-gated monoatomic ion channel activity

name: excitatory extracellular ligand-gated monoatomic ion channel activity
namespace: molecular_function
def: "Enables 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, where channel opening contributes to an increase in membrane potential." [GOC:mah, ISBN:0323037070]
is_a: GO:0005230 ! extracellular ligand-gated monoatomic ion channel activity
relationship: part_of: GO:0060079 ! excitatory postsynaptic potential
intersection_of: GO:0005230 ! extracellular ligand-gated monoatomic ion channel activity
intersection_of: part_of GO:0060079 ! excitatory postsynaptic potential

AmiGO <GOterm>GO:0005231</GOterm>
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