Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables L-tyrosine:2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase activity. Involved in 2-oxoglutarate metabolic process; glutamate metabolic process; and tyrosine catabolic process. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in liver. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in tyrosinemia and tyrosinemia type II. Orthologous to human TAT (tyrosine aminotransferase).