Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable rRNA (uridine-2'-O-)-methyltransferase activity. Predicted to be involved in RNA methylation and mitochondrial large ribosomal subunit assembly. Located in mitochondrion. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 17. Orthologous to human MRM2 (mitochondrial rRNA methyltransferase 2).