Predicted to enable cysteine-type endopeptidase inhibitor activity involved in apoptotic process. Predicted to be involved in positive regulation of apoptotic process. Predicted to act upstream of or within defense response to Gram-positive bacterium. Predicted to be located in nucleoplasm. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm. Orthologous to human TNFAIP8 (TNF alpha induced protein 8). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]