Enables several functions, including BAT3 complex binding activity; chaperone binding activity; and cysteine-type peptidase activity. Involved in several processes, including maintenance of unfolded protein involved in ERAD pathway; regulation of cellular catabolic process; and regulation of transcription, DNA-templated. Acts upstream of or within protein deubiquitination and protein stabilization. Predicted to be located in nucleoplasm. Predicted to be active in cytosol and nucleus. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]