Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable gap junction channel activity. Acts upstream of or within cell morphogenesis; lens development in camera-type eye; and organ growth. Predicted to be located in plasma membrane. Predicted to be part of connexin complex. Is expressed in lens; lens epithelium; lens equatorial epithelium; lens vesicle; and retina. Orthologous to human GJE1 (gap junction protein epsilon 1).