| id | GO:0015277 Detailed information
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| name | kainate selective glutamate receptor activity
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| namespace | molecular_function
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| def | "An ionotropic glutamate receptor activity that exhibits fast gating by glutamate, acts by opening a cation channel permeable to sodium and potassium, and for which kainate is an agonist." [GOC:mah, PMID:10049997, PMID:8804111]
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| comment | Note that this term represents an activity and not a gene product. Consider also annotating to the molecular function terms 'ionotropic glutamate receptor activity ; GO:0004970' and 'cation channel activity ; GO:0005261'.
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| is_a | GO:0004970 ! ionotropic glutamate receptor activity
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