Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.4.0)
Predicted to enable several functions, including nitrite reductase activity; oxygen binding activity; and oxygen carrier activity. Acts upstream of or within several processes, including brown fat cell differentiation; enucleate erythrocyte differentiation; and response to hypoxia. Predicted to be located in sarcoplasm. Is expressed in brown fat; heart; skeletal muscle; and somite. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in acute kidney failure. Orthologous to human MB (myoglobin).
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