Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Contributes to chloride channel activity. Involved in chloride transmembrane transport; membrane depolarization; and sensory perception of smell. Acts upstream of or within chloride transport. Located in cilium. Part of chloride channel complex. Is expressed in ovary; submandibular gland; testis; and thymus. Orthologous to human BEST2 (bestrophin 2).