Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables ISG15-specific peptidase activity. Involved in response to stilbenoid. Acts upstream of or within response to bacterium. Predicted to be located in intracellular membrane-bounded organelle. Predicted to be active in cytosol and nucleus. Is expressed in axial skeleton; lung; and mandible. Orthologous to several human genes including USP18 (ubiquitin specific peptidase 18).