Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to be involved in antimicrobial humoral immune response mediated by antimicrobial peptide and defense response to fungus. Predicted to act upstream of or within defense response to bacterium. Predicted to be located in extracellular region. Orthologous to human LEAP2 (liver enriched antimicrobial peptide 2).