Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables actin binding activity and metallocarboxypeptidase activity. Involved in proteolysis. Acts upstream of or within labyrinthine layer blood vessel development; positive regulation of angiogenesis; and syncytium formation by plasma membrane fusion. Predicted to be located in cytosol. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm. Is expressed in brain; cerebral cortex intermediate zone; cerebral cortex ventricular layer; cortical plate; and hippocampus. Orthologous to human VASH2 (vasohibin 2).