Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables pyruvate transmembrane transporter activity. Involved in acetyl-CoA biosynthetic process from pyruvate. Acts upstream of or within mitochondrial pyruvate transmembrane transport and positive regulation of insulin secretion involved in cellular response to glucose stimulus. Located in mitochondrion. Is active in mitochondrial inner membrane. Is expressed in early conceptus and embryo. Orthologous to human MPC2 (mitochondrial pyruvate carrier 2).