GO Term : GO:0050997 quaternary ammonium group binding GO

Namespace  molecular_function Obsolete  false
description  Interacting selectively and non-covalently with a quaternary ammonium group, including glycine betaine, choline, carnitine and proline. A quaternary ammonium group is any compound that can be regarded as derived from ammonium hydroxide or an ammonium salt by replacement of all four hydrogen atoms of the NH4+ ion by organic groups.

0 Cross References

1 Ontology

Name
GO

3 Parents

Identifier Name Description
GO:0005488 binding The selective, non-covalent, often stoichiometric, interaction of a molecule with one or more specific sites on another molecule.
GO:0003674 molecular_function Elemental activities, such as catalysis or binding, describing the actions of a gene product at the molecular level. A given gene product may exhibit one or more molecular functions.
GO:0050997 quaternary ammonium group binding Interacting selectively and non-covalently with a quaternary ammonium group, including glycine betaine, choline, carnitine and proline. A quaternary ammonium group is any compound that can be regarded as derived from ammonium hydroxide or an ammonium salt by replacement of all four hydrogen atoms of the NH4+ ion by organic groups.

0 Protein

5 Relations

Relationship
Parent Term . Identifier

Child Term . Identifier
is_a GO:0050997 GO:0031210
is_a GO:0050997 GO:0033265
is_a GO:0050997 GO:0042166
is_a GO:0005488 GO:0050997
is_a GO:0003674 GO:0050997

1 Synonyms

Name Type
quaternary amine binding synonym