Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 5.3.0)
Predicted to enable protein homodimerization activity. Predicted to be involved in cellular response to lipopolysaccharide; defense response to other organism; and membrane disruption in another organism. Predicted to act upstream of or within defense response to bacterium. Predicted to be located in midbody and secretory granule. Predicted to be active in extracellular space. Orthologous to several human genes including DEFA1 (defensin alpha 1); DEFA1B (defensin alpha 1B); and DEFA3 (defensin alpha 3).