Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables monoatomic cation channel activity. Acts upstream of or within monoatomic cation transmembrane transport and response to temperature stimulus. Located in membrane. Is expressed in central nervous system and sensory organ. Used to study atopic dermatitis. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in colorectal cancer; congenital stationary night blindness; keratosis (multiple); migraine with aura; and schizophrenia. Orthologous to human TRPV3 (transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 3).