Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Enables steroid sulfotransferase activity. Involved in estrogen metabolic process. Acts upstream of or within female pregnancy. Located in cytoplasm. Is expressed in liver; nervous system; nose; and reproductive system. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in breast cancer and endometrial cancer. Orthologous to human SULT1E1 (sulfotransferase family 1E member 1).