Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.4.0)
Enables chitin binding activity and chitinase activity. Involved in chitin catabolic process. Located in cytoplasm. Is expressed in choroid plexus; lung; and nervous system. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in asthma. Orthologous to human CHIA (chitinase acidic).
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