Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable GTP binding activity and GTPase activity. Predicted to be involved in tRNA methylation and tRNA wobble uridine modification. Predicted to act upstream of or within tRNA processing. Located in mitochondrion. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency 23. Orthologous to human GTPBP3 (GTP binding protein 3, mitochondrial).