[Term]
id: PR:000049983
name: ion channel protein
def: "A channel protein that has ion channel activity. An ion channel enables the facilitated diffusion of an ion (by an energy-independent process) by passage through a transmembrane aqueous pore or channel without evidence for a carrier-mediated mechanism." [PRO:XQ, IUPHARfam:689]
comment: Category=family.
synonym: "fam:ion_chan" EXACT PRO-short-label [PRO:DAN]
xref: IUPHARfam:689
intersection_of: PR:000044676 ! channel protein
intersection_of: capable_of GO:0005216 ! monoatomic ion channel activity