Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables sphingosine N-acyltransferase activity. Involved in ceramide biosynthetic process and regulation of lipid metabolic process. Acts upstream of or within sphingolipid biosynthetic process. Predicted to be located in endoplasmic reticulum. Is expressed in cerebral cortex; limb; liver; neural tube; and skin. Orthologous to human CERS2 (ceramide synthase 2).