Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable BH domain binding activity. Acts upstream of or within apoptotic mitochondrial changes; male gonad development; and spermatogenesis. Located in mitochondrial envelope. Is expressed in heart; liver; lung; metanephros; and testis. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in ataxia telangiectasia; breast cancer; colon cancer; and prostate cancer. Orthologous to human BIK (BCL2 interacting killer).