Predicted to enable protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Predicted to be involved in intracellular signal transduction; protein phosphorylation; and regulation of MAPK cascade. Predicted to act upstream of or within learning or memory; locomotory behavior; and negative regulation of extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway. Predicted to be located in mitochondrion and nucleoplasm. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm and synapse. Orthologous to human PAK5 (p21 (RAC1) activated kinase 5). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]