detection of cAMP

id: GO:0031319
name: detection of cAMP
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The series of events in which a cAMP (cyclic AMP, adenosine 3',5'-cyclophosphate) stimulus is received by a cell and converted into a molecular signal; cAMP is the nucleotide cyclic AMP.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0009593detection of chemical stimulus
GO:0051591response to cAMP