Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables monoatomic cation channel activity. Involved in cellular response to light stimulus. Acts upstream of or within several processes, including monoatomic cation transmembrane transport; protein localization; and retinal rod cell development. Located in new growing cell tip. Is expressed in foregut; reproductive system; and sensory organ. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in congenital stationary night blindness and congenital stationary night blindness 1C. Orthologous to human TRPM1 (transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 1).