Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 5.2.0)
Predicted to enable microtubule binding activity. Acts upstream of or within cellular response to reactive oxygen species and flagellated sperm motility. Located in axoneme; sperm cytoplasmic droplet; and sperm principal piece. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in primary ciliary dyskinesia 6. Orthologous to human NME8 (NME/NM23 family member 8).