Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables identical protein binding activity. Predicted to be involved in extracellular matrix organization. Predicted to act upstream of or within cell adhesion. Located in basement membrane. Is expressed in glomerular basement membrane of mature renal corpuscle; pigmented retinal epithelium; skin; and surface ectoderm. Used to study recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica (multiple) and nonsyndromic congenital nail disorder 8. Orthologous to human COL7A1 (collagen type VII alpha 1 chain).