Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables microtubule binding activity. Predicted to be involved in several processes, including cellular response to starvation; endosomal vesicle fusion; and vacuolar transport. Predicted to act upstream of or within autophagy and protein transport. Located in early endosome; late endosome; and microtubule cytoskeleton. Is expressed in embryo; extraembryonic component; and primitive endoderm. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in autosomal recessive spinocerebellar ataxia 29. Orthologous to human VPS41 (VPS41 subunit of HOPS complex).