Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable RNA binding activity and protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Predicted to be involved in mitochondrial RNA processing; regulation of RNA splicing; and regulation of mitochondrial mRNA stability. Predicted to act upstream of or within apoptotic process and phosphorylation. Located in nuclear speck. Is expressed in brain; gut; male reproductive gland or organ; metanephros; and thoracic segment skeleton. Orthologous to human FASTK (Fas activated serine/threonine kinase).