Predicted to enable signaling receptor binding activity. Predicted to be involved in negative regulation of cold-induced thermogenesis. Predicted to act upstream of or within blood vessel development and brown fat cell differentiation. Predicted to be located in basement membrane and neuromuscular junction. Predicted to be active in synaptic cleft. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in dilated cardiomyopathy 1JJ. Orthologous to human LAMA4 (laminin subunit alpha 4). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]