Predicted to enable protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Predicted to be involved in nuclear-transcribed mRNA catabolic process, nonsense-mediated decay and phosphorylation. Is an ortholog of C. elegans
smg-1. In C. elegans,
smg-1 is involved in male genitalia development; nuclear-transcribed mRNA catabolic process, nonsense-mediated decay; and obsolete hermaphrodite genitalia development.