Predicted to enable MIT domain binding activity and identical protein binding activity. Predicted to be involved in several processes, including positive regulation of proteolysis; viral capsid secondary envelopment; and viral release from host cell. Predicted to act upstream of or within positive regulation of collateral sprouting. Predicted to be located in several cellular components, including Flemming body; endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment; and extracellular exosome. Predicted to colocalize with chromatin. Orthologous to human IST1 (IST1 factor associated with ESCRT-III). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]