Category:GO:0004970 ! glutamate-gated receptor activity

id: GO:0004970

name: glutamate-gated receptor activity
namespace: molecular_function
def: "Catalysis of the transmembrane transfer of an ion by a channel that opens when glutamate has been bound by the channel complex or one of its constituent parts." [ISBN:0198506732]
comment: Note that this term represents an activity and not a gene product. Consider also annotating to the molecular function terms 'glutamate-gated ion channel activity ; GO:0005234' and 'cation channel activity ; GO:0005261'.
synonym: "ionotropic glutamate receptor activity" EXACT []
is_a: GO:0008066 ! glutamate receptor activity
is_a: GO:0015171 ! amino acid transmembrane transporter activity
is_a: GO:0022824 ! transmitter-gated monoatomic ion channel activity
is_a: GO:0046943 ! carboxylic acid transmembrane transporter activity
relationship: part_of: GO:0035235 ! ionotropic glutamate receptor signaling pathway

AmiGO <GOterm>GO:0004970</GOterm>
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