Predicted to enable 5'-3' exodeoxyribonuclease activity and damaged DNA binding activity. Predicted to be involved in double-strand break repair via nonhomologous end joining; interstrand cross-link repair; and protection from non-homologous end joining at telomere. Predicted to act upstream of or within nucleotide-excision repair. Predicted to be located in fibrillar center and nucleoplasm. Orthologous to human DCLRE1A (DNA cross-link repair 1A). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]