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Category:GO:0005234 ! extracellularly glutamate-gated ion channel activity
name: extracellularly glutamate-gated ion channel activity
namespace: molecular_function
def: "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." [GOC:mtg_transport, ISBN:0815340729]
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'.
synonym: "extracellular-glutamate-gated ion channel activity" EXACT []
is_a: GO:0005231 ! excitatory extracellular ligand-gated monoatomic ion channel activity
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<GOterm>GO:0005234</GOterm>
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