Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.4.0)
Predicted to enable pore-forming activity and protein homodimerization activity. Acts upstream of or within defense response to bacterium. Predicted to be located in midbody and secretory granule. Predicted to be active in extracellular space. Is expressed in ileum. Orthologous to several human genes including DEFA1 (defensin alpha 1); DEFA1B (defensin alpha 1B); and DEFA5 (defensin alpha 5).
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