Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables hypotaurine dehydrogenase activity. Involved in taurine biosynthetic process. Acts upstream of or within energy homeostasis; negative regulation of fatty acid oxidation; and xenobiotic metabolic process. Predicted to be located in endoplasmic reticulum and membrane. Is expressed in brain; cortical renal tubule; late tubule; and testis. Orthologous to human FMO1 (flavin containing dimethylaniline monoxygenase 1).