Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable glutaminase activity. Predicted to be involved in glutamate biosynthetic process and glutamine catabolic process. Predicted to act upstream of or within reactive oxygen species metabolic process and regulation of apoptotic process. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in several structures, including alimentary system; limb; nervous system; skeleton; and urinary system. Orthologous to human GLS2 (glutaminase 2).