Predicted to enable signaling receptor activity. Predicted to be involved in protein-DNA covalent cross-linking repair and reticulophagy. Predicted to act upstream of or within DNA repair and autophagy. Located in autophagosome membrane and endoplasmic reticulum. Orthologous to human TEX264 (testis expressed 264, ER-phagy receptor). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]