Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable lipopolysaccharide binding activity. Involved in antimicrobial humoral immune response mediated by antimicrobial peptide; defense response to Gram-positive bacterium; and innate immune response. Acts upstream of or within defense response to Gram-negative bacterium and killing by host of symbiont cells. Located in specific granule. Is expressed in several structures, including gut; heart; hemolymphoid system; lung; and testis. Orthologous to human CAMP (cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide).