EOG8GF5V9 GO:0005234 18/85 extracellular-glutamate-gated ion channel activity molecular_function "Enables the transmembrane transfer of an ion by a channel that opens when extracellular glutamate has been bound by the channel complex or one of its constituent parts." [GOC:mtg_transport, ISBN:0815340729] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0004970 18/85 ionotropic glutamate receptor activity molecular_function "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] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0016020 10/85 membrane cellular_component "A lipid bilayer along with all the proteins and protein complexes embedded in it an attached to it." [GOC:dos, GOC:mah, ISBN:0815316194] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0016021 7/85 integral component of membrane cellular_component "The component of a membrane consisting of the gene products and protein complexes having at least some part of their peptide sequence embedded in the hydrophobic region of the membrane." [GOC:dos, GOC:go_curators] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0045211 3/85 postsynaptic membrane cellular_component "A specialized area of membrane facing the presynaptic membrane on the tip of the nerve ending and separated from it by a minute cleft (the synaptic cleft). Neurotransmitters cross the synaptic cleft and transmit the signal to the postsynaptic membrane." [ISBN:0198506732] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0030054 2/85 cell junction cellular_component "A cellular component that forms a specialized region of connection between two or more cells or between a cell and the extracellular matrix. At a cell junction, anchoring proteins extend through the plasma membrane to link cytoskeletal proteins in one cell to cytoskeletal proteins in neighboring cells or to proteins in the extracellular matrix." [GOC:mah, http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/cmb/cells/pmemb/junctions_a.html, ISBN:0198506732] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0043235 1/85 receptor complex cellular_component "Any protein complex that undergoes combination with a hormone, neurotransmitter, drug or intracellular messenger to initiate a change in cell function." [GOC:go_curators] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0035235 1/85 ionotropic glutamate receptor signaling pathway biological_process "A series of molecular signals initiated by glutamate binding to a glutamate receptor on the surface of the target cell, followed by the movement of ions through a channel in the receptor complex. Ends with regulation of a downstream cellular process, e.g. transcription." [GOC:signaling, ISBN:0198506732] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0007608 1/85 sensory perception of smell biological_process "The series of events required for an organism to receive an olfactory stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Olfaction involves the detection of chemical composition of an organism's ambient medium by chemoreceptors. This is a neurological process." [GOC:ai, http://www.onelook.com/] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0015276 1/85 ligand-gated ion channel activity molecular_function "Enables the transmembrane transfer of an ion by a channel that opens when a specific ligand has been bound by the channel complex or one of its constituent parts." [GOC:mtg_transport, ISBN:0815340729] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0071683 1/85 sensory dendrite cellular_component "A dendrite that is found on a sensory neuron, and directly transduces a sensory signal from the sensory neuron to another neuron." [GOC:dos, GOC:kmv, GOC:mah] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0008328 1/85 ionotropic glutamate receptor complex cellular_component "A multimeric assembly of four or five subunits which form a structure with an extracellular N-terminus and a large loop that together form the ligand binding domain. The C-terminus is intracellular. The ionotropic glutamate receptor complex itself acts as a ligand-gated ion channel; on binding glutamate, charged ions pass through a channel in the center of the receptor complex." [http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Synaptic/info/glutamate.html] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0034220 1/85 ion transmembrane transport biological_process "A process in which an ion is transported from one side of a membrane to the other by means of some agent such as a transporter or pore." [GOC:mah] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0050907 1/85 detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception biological_process "The series of events in which a chemical stimulus is received and converted into a molecular signal as part of sensory perception." [GOC:ai, GOC:dos] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0005886 1/85 plasma membrane cellular_component "The membrane surrounding a cell that separates the cell from its external environment. It consists of a phospholipid bilayer and associated proteins." [ISBN:0716731363] EOG8GF5V9 GO:0035249 1/85 synaptic transmission, glutamatergic biological_process "The process of communication from a neuron to another neuron across a synapse using the neurotransmitter glutamate." [GOC:kmv]