Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable GTPase activity and translation elongation factor activity. Predicted to be involved in mitochondrial translational elongation. Predicted to act upstream of or within translation. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in embryo and extraembryonic component. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency 1. Orthologous to human GFM1 (G elongation factor mitochondrial 1).