EOG854CCH GO:0004970 12/14 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] EOG854CCH GO:0030054 12/14 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] EOG854CCH GO:0045211 12/14 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] EOG854CCH GO:0005234 12/14 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] EOG854CCH GO:0016021 11/14 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] EOG854CCH GO:0005886 1/14 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] EOG854CCH GO:0015277 1/14 kainate selective glutamate receptor activity molecular_function "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] EOG854CCH GO:0031594 1/14 neuromuscular junction cellular_component "The junction between the axon of a motor neuron and a muscle fiber. In response to the arrival of action potentials, the presynaptic button releases molecules of neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft. These diffuse across the cleft and transmit the signal to the postsynaptic membrane of the muscle fiber, leading to a change in post-synaptic potential." [GOC:nln] EOG854CCH GO:0035235 1/14 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] EOG854CCH GO:0051968 1/14 positive regulation of synaptic transmission, glutamatergic biological_process "Any process that activates, maintains or increases the frequency, rate or extent of glutamatergic synaptic transmission, the process of communication from a neuron to another neuron across a synapse using the neurotransmitter glutamate." [GOC:ai] EOG854CCH GO:0030425 1/14 dendrite cellular_component "A neuron projection that has a short, tapering, often branched, morphology, receives and integrates signals from other neurons or from sensory stimuli, and conducts a nerve impulse towards the axon or the cell body. In most neurons, the impulse is conveyed from dendrites to axon via the cell body, but in some types of unipolar neuron, the impulse does not travel via the cell body." [GOC:dos, GOC:mah, GOC:nln, ISBN:0198506732] EOG854CCH GO:0034220 1/14 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] EOG854CCH GO:0008328 1/14 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] EOG854CCH GO:1900075 1/14 positive regulation of neuromuscular synaptic transmission biological_process "Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of neuromuscular synaptic transmission." [GOC:kmv, GOC:TermGenie]