Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables GTPase activity. Involved in several processes, including defense response to protozoan; negative regulation of non-canonical inflammasome complex assembly; and protein targeting to vacuolar membrane. Acts upstream of or within response to bacterium. Is active in Golgi membrane; cytosol; and vacuolar membrane. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in inflammatory bowel disease 19 and tuberculosis. Orthologous to human IRGM (immunity related GTPase M).