Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable calcium ion binding activity. Acts upstream of or within morphogenesis of embryonic epithelium and somitogenesis. Predicted to be located in plasma membrane. Predicted to be active in Schaffer collateral - CA1 synapse; glutamatergic synapse; and postsynaptic membrane. Is expressed in brain; embryo; somite; tail unsegmented mesenchyme; and trunk unsegmented mesenchyme. Orthologous to human PCDH8 (protocadherin 8).