Predicted to enable protein kinase binding activity. Acts upstream of or within several processes, including defense response to other organism; phospholipid homeostasis; and vesicle organization. Located in cytosol. Is expressed in axial skeleton. Used to study Chediak-Higashi syndrome; exfoliation syndrome; and platelet storage pool deficiency. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Chediak-Higashi syndrome. Orthologous to human LYST (lysosomal trafficking regulator). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]