extracellularly glutamate-gated ion channel activity [GO_0005234]

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.
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extracellularly glutamate-gated ion channel activity

ID: GO_0005234

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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.

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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extracellular-glutamate-gated ion channel activity exact synonym