Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable hydrolase activity, acting on acid carbon-carbon bonds, in ketonic substances; protein homodimerization activity; and pyridoxal phosphate binding activity. Predicted to be involved in several processes, including aromatic amino acid metabolic process; pyridine-containing compound biosynthetic process; and response to type II interferon. Predicted to act upstream of or within pyridine nucleotide biosynthetic process. Located in mitochondrion. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in hydroxykynureninuria. Orthologous to human KYNU (kynureninase).