Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Involved in autophagy and response to starvation. Acts upstream of or within axon extension and negative regulation of collateral sprouting. Located in phagophore assembly site membrane. Is expressed in facial bone primordium; nervous system; and sensory organ. Orthologous to human ULK2 (unc-51 like autophagy activating kinase 2).