Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable ATP binding activity. Involved in defense response to symbiont; positive regulation of interleukin-18 production; and pyroptosis. Acts upstream of or within blastocyst development. Predicted to be part of canonical inflammasome complex. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm. Is expressed in early conceptus; gonad; and intestine. Orthologous to human NLRP9 (NLR family pyrin domain containing 9).