Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables protein kinase activity. Involved in cellular response to glucose starvation and macroautophagy. Acts upstream of or within cellular response to starvation; phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate biosynthetic process; and protein localization to phagophore assembly site. Located in phagocytic vesicle. Part of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase complex, class III. Is expressed in Meckel's cartilage; cardiovascular system; limb; and skeleton. Orthologous to human PIK3C3 (phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase catalytic subunit type 3).