Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables voltage-gated potassium channel activity. Acts upstream of or within potassium ion import across plasma membrane. Predicted to be located in synaptic vesicle. Predicted to be active in plasma membrane. Is expressed in cerebral cortex; early conceptus; and secondary oocyte. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Birk-Barel syndrome. Orthologous to human KCNK9 (potassium two pore domain channel subfamily K member 9).