Predicted to enable protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Predicted to be involved in several processes, including fibroblast activation; protein phosphorylation; and regulation of smoothened signaling pathway. Predicted to act upstream of or within autophagy and phosphorylation. Predicted to be active in autophagosome. Orthologous to human ULK3 (unc-51 like kinase 3). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]