Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable nuclear import signal receptor activity and nuclear localization sequence binding activity. Predicted to be involved in NLS-bearing protein import into nucleus. Predicted to act upstream of or within protein transport. Predicted to be located in cytoplasm. Predicted to be part of NLS-dependent protein nuclear import complex. Predicted to be active in nucleoplasm. Is expressed in several structures, including gonad; heart; liver; lung; and spleen. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in hereditary spastic paraplegia 88. Orthologous to human KPNA3 (karyopherin subunit alpha 3).