Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables transmitter-gated monoatomic ion channel activity involved in regulation of postsynaptic membrane potential. Predicted to be involved in several processes, including cellular response to ethanol; cellular response to zinc ion; and chloride transmembrane transport. Predicted to act upstream of or within monoatomic ion transport. Is active in glycinergic synapse. Is expressed in brain; spinal cord; and vascular element. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in syndromic X-linked intellectual disability Pilorge type. Orthologous to human GLRA2 (glycine receptor alpha 2).