Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 8.0.0)
Predicted to enable several functions, including heme binding activity; oxygen binding activity; and tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase activity. Predicted to be involved in indolalkylamine metabolic process and protein homotetramerization. Is expressed in cerebellum; liver; male reproductive gland or organ; and small intestine. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome and familial hypertryptophanemia. Orthologous to human TDO2 (tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase).
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