Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable GTP binding activity; identical protein binding activity; and translation elongation factor activity. Acts upstream of or within nuclear-transcribed mRNA catabolic process, no-go decay and rescue of stalled ribosome. Is expressed in central nervous system and eye. Orthologous to human GTPBP2 (GTP binding protein 2).