Predicted to enable protein homodimerization activity. Predicted to be involved in several processes, including T cell chemotaxis; cellular response to lipopolysaccharide; and defense response to other organism. Predicted to act upstream of or within defense response to bacterium. Predicted to be located in azurophil granule. Predicted to be active in extracellular space. Orthologous to several human genes including DEFA5 (defensin alpha 5). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]