Predicted to enable ATP binding activity and protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Predicted to be involved in cardiac muscle cell development. Predicted to act upstream of or within heart development. Predicted to be active in nucleus. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Orthologous to human ALPK3 (alpha kinase 3). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]