Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase activity. Predicted to be involved in conversion of methionyl-tRNA to N-formyl-methionyl-tRNA. Predicted to act upstream of or within translation. Located in mitochondrion. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency 15 and nuclear type mitochondrial complex I deficiency 27. Orthologous to human MTFMT (mitochondrial methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase).