Predicted to enable protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Predicted to be involved in several processes, including intracellular signal transduction; protein autophosphorylation; and regulation of MAPK cascade. Predicted to act upstream of or within DNA repair and phosphorylation. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm. Is expressed in renal vasculature. Orthologous to human TAOK3 (TAO kinase 3). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]