Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables tubulin-glutamic acid ligase activity. Acts upstream of or within fertilization and sperm axoneme assembly. Located in 9+0 non-motile cilium and ciliary basal body. Is expressed in brain and early embryo. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in cone-rod dystrophy 19. Orthologous to human TTLL5 (tubulin tyrosine ligase like 5).