Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables DNA binding activity. Acts upstream of or within cellular response to interferon-beta; defense response to virus; and positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II. Located in endoplasmic reticulum and nucleus. Is expressed in hippocampus; pancreas; and testis. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in myeloproliferative neoplasm. Orthologous to human DDX41 (DEAD-box helicase 41).