[5][6][7] This gene encodes a secreted protein resembling members of the ADAMTS (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motif) family.

This protein lacks the propeptide region and the metalloproteinase and disintegrin-like domains, which are typical of the ADAMTS family, but contains other ADAMTS domains, including the thrombospondin type 1 motif.

This protein may have important functions in the extracellular matrix.

Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described, but their biological validity has not been determined.

This article on a gene on human chromosome 9 is a stub.