Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable cysteine-type deubiquitinase activity. Involved in chromosome segregation; proteasome-mediated ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process; and regulation of mitotic cell cycle spindle assembly checkpoint. Located in nucleus. Orthologous to human USP44 (ubiquitin specific peptidase 44).