Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables GTP binding activity and GTPase activity. Involved in several processes, including cellular response to interferon-beta; cytolysis in another organism; and defense response to other organism. Acts upstream of or within adhesion of symbiont to host and defense response to other organism. Located in cytoplasmic vesicle and symbiont-containing vacuole membrane. Is expressed in thymus primordium. Orthologous to human GBP7 (guanylate binding protein 7).