Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable GTPase binding activity and protein homodimerization activity. Involved in mitochondrial fission and protein targeting to mitochondrion. Located in mitochondrial outer membrane and peroxisome. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in brain disease. Orthologous to human MFF (mitochondrial fission factor).