Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable metal ion binding activity; protein-folding chaperone binding activity; and unfolded protein binding activity. Predicted to be involved in chaperone cofactor-dependent protein refolding. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in early conceptus. Orthologous to human HSPE1 (heat shock protein family E (Hsp10) member 1).