Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables voltage-gated potassium channel activity. Involved in potassium ion export across plasma membrane. Acts upstream of or within potassium ion import across plasma membrane. Predicted to be active in plasma membrane. Is expressed in brain; brain meninges; and heart. Orthologous to human KCNK5 (potassium two pore domain channel subfamily K member 5).