Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable RNA binding activity; histidine-tRNA ligase activity; and identical protein binding activity. Predicted to be involved in histidyl-tRNA aminoacylation. Predicted to act upstream of or within translation. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in heart ventricle and lung. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Perrault syndrome. Orthologous to human HARS2 (histidyl-tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial).