Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable pore-forming activity and protein homodimerization activity. Predicted to act upstream of or within defense response to bacterium. Predicted to be located in extracellular space; midbody; and secretory granule. Orthologous to several human genes including DEFA1 (defensin alpha 1); DEFA1B (defensin alpha 1B); and DEFA5 (defensin alpha 5).