Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable endopeptidase activity and proteasome binding activity. Acts upstream of or within antigen processing and presentation and response to bacterium. Part of proteasome core complex and spermatoproteasome complex. Is expressed in thymus primordium. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in autoimmune disease (multiple); lymphoma; proteasome-associated autoinflammatory syndrome 3; and renal cell carcinoma. Orthologous to human PSMB9 (proteasome 20S subunit beta 9).