Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables aconitate decarboxylase activity and protein homodimerization activity. Involved in several processes, including cellular response to cytokine stimulus; cellular response to lipid; and regulation of defense response. Acts upstream of or within response to lipopolysaccharide. Located in mitochondrion. Orthologous to human ACOD1 (aconitate decarboxylase 1).