Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Enables mechanosensitive monoatomic ion channel activity and osmolarity-sensing monoatomic cation channel activity. Predicted to act upstream of or within monoatomic ion transmembrane transport. Located in plasma membrane. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 19. Orthologous to human TMEM63A (transmembrane protein 63A).