Predicted to enable cysteine-type endopeptidase activity. Predicted to be involved in immune response and proteolysis involved in cellular protein catabolic process. Predicted to be active in extracellular space and lysosome. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Orthologous to human CTSL (cathepsin L). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]