Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 6.0.0)
Enables CCR6 chemokine receptor binding activity. Involved in chemotaxis; defense response to Gram-negative bacterium; and defense response to Gram-positive bacterium. Acts upstream of or within defense response to bacterium. Predicted to be located in extracellular region. Predicted to be active in extracellular space. Orthologous to human DEFB4A (defensin beta 4A) and DEFB4B (defensin beta 4B).