Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable GTP binding activity and GTPase activity. Predicted to be involved in nuclear-transcribed mRNA catabolic process, no-go decay and rescue of stalled ribosome. Predicted to act upstream of or within regulation of translation and translational elongation. Predicted to be located in cytoplasm. Predicted to be part of Dom34-Hbs1 complex. Predicted to be active in cytosolic ribosome. Is expressed in several structures, including central nervous system; limb muscle; liver; lung; and spleen. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in beta thalassemia. Orthologous to human HBS1L (HBS1 like translational GTPase).