Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable hydrolase activity. Predicted to be involved in fatty acid metabolic process; phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/protein kinase B signal transduction; and regulation of mitochondrial membrane permeability involved in apoptotic process. Predicted to act upstream of or within apoptotic process and lipid metabolic process. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in ganglia; hindbrain; and trigeminal nerve. Orthologous to human THEM4 (thioesterase superfamily member 4).