Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable single-stranded DNA 5'-3' DNA exonuclease activity. Predicted to be involved in mitochondrial DNA replication. Predicted to act upstream of or within DNA repair. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in cerebral cortex ventricular layer. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 11. Orthologous to human MGME1 (mitochondrial genome maintenance exonuclease 1).