[Term]
id: PR:000044678
name: chloride channel protein
def: "An ion channel protein that has chloride channel activity. A chloride channel enables the facilitated diffusion of a chloride (by an energy-independent process) involving passage through a transmembrane aqueous pore or channel without evidence for a carrier-mediated mechanism." [GO:0005254, PRO:XQ]
comment: Category=family.
synonym: "fam:Cl_chan" EXACT PRO-short-label [PRO:DAN]
xref: IUPHARfam:120
intersection_of: capable_of GO:0005254 ! chloride channel activity
intersection_of: PR:000049983 ! ion channel protein