Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable chitin binding activity and endochitinase activity. Predicted to be involved in chitin catabolic process. Predicted to act upstream of or within polysaccharide catabolic process. Predicted to be located in extracellular space. Predicted to be active in extracellular region. Orthologous to human CHIT1 (chitinase 1).