Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.4.0)
Enables sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase activity. Involved in ceramide biosynthetic process and sphingomyelin catabolic process. Acts upstream of or within ceramide metabolic process. Located in endoplasmic reticulum membrane and mitochondrial membrane. Orthologous to human SMPD5 (sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase 5 (pseudogene)).
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