Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable metalloendopeptidase activity. Involved in determination of heart left/right asymmetry. Acts upstream of or within coronary vasculature development and hematopoietic progenitor cell differentiation. Predicted to be located in extracellular matrix and extracellular region. Is expressed in brain; cerebral cortex; embryo; and liver. Used to study visceral heterotaxy. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in visceral heterotaxy. Orthologous to human MMP21 (matrix metallopeptidase 21).