channel activity
Term Information
- Accession
- GO:0015267
- Ontology
- molecular function
- Synonyms
- related: alpha-type channel activity
- related: channel-forming toxin activity
- related: pore class transporter activity
- alt_id: GO:0015249
- alt_id: GO:0015268
- exact: channel/pore class transporter activity
- exact: nonselective channel activity
- broad: pore activity
- Definition
- Catalysis of energy-independent facilitated diffusion, mediated by passage of a solute through a transmembrane aqueous pore or channel. Stereospecificity is not exhibited but this transport may be specific for a particular molecular species or class of molecules. [source:
GOC:mtg_transport, ISBN:0815340729, TC:1.-.-.-.-]
- Comment
- None
- Subset
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