Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Enables protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Acts upstream of or within learning or memory; locomotory behavior; and negative regulation of extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway. Located in mitochondrion. Is active in synapse. Is expressed in brain. Orthologous to human PAK5 (p21 (RAC1) activated kinase 5).