Predicted to enable kynureninase activity. Predicted to be involved in anthranilate metabolic process and tryptophan catabolic process to kynurenine. Predicted to be located in cytoplasm. Expressed in E lineage cell and hypodermal cell. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in hydroxykynureninuria. Is an ortholog of human KYNU (kynureninase).