acetylcholine-gated monoatomic cation-selective channel activity
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0022848
Selectively enables the transmembrane transfer of a cation by a channel that opens upon binding acetylcholine. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2466967 GOC:mah ]
Synonyms: nicotinergic acetylcholine receptor activity, nAChR, acetylcholine-activated cation-selective channel activity, nicotinic acetylcholine-activated cation-selective channel activity, ionotropic acetylcholine receptor activity, acetylcholine-gated cation channel activity
Term info
GO:0004889, GO:0016904
acetylcholine-gated cation-selective channel activity
molecular_function
GO:0022848
Term relations
- ligand-gated channel activity and regulated by some acetylcholine binding and has primary input some monoatomic cation