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. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0815340729 GOC : mtg_transport ]
extracellular-glutamate-gated ion channel activity
Term information
- 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'.
- molecular_function
- GO:0005234