Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable chromatin binding activity; protein homodimerization activity; and single-stranded DNA binding activity. Acts upstream of or within mitochondrion organization. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in brain ventricular layer; foregut; renal cortex; and submandibular gland primordium. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in optic atrophy. Orthologous to human SSBP1 (single stranded DNA binding protein 1).