AmiGO 2: Term Details for "interferon receptor activity" (GO:0004904)

Accession: GO:0004904
Name: interferon receptor activity
Ontology: molecular_function
Synonyms: IFN receptor activity
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Combining with an interferon and transmitting the signal from one side of the membrane to the other to initiate a change in cell activity. Source: GOC:signaling, GOC:ai, PMID:9607096
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0004904 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to interferon receptor activity (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to interferon receptor activity (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for interferon receptor activity (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
interferon receptor activity	is_a	cytokine receptor activity (GO:0004896)
interferon receptor activity	BFO:0000051	interferon binding (GO:0019961)

subject	relation	object
type II interferon receptor activity (GO:0004906)	is_a	interferon receptor activity
type I interferon receptor activity (GO:0004905)	is_a	interferon receptor activity
type III interferon receptor activity (GO:0034348)	is_a	interferon receptor activity

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