Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable ribosomal small subunit binding activity and translation initiation factor activity. Predicted to be involved in mitochondrial translational initiation and ribosome disassembly. Predicted to act upstream of or within translation. Predicted to be active in mitochondrion. Used to study dilated cardiomyopathy. Orthologous to human MTIF3 (mitochondrial translational initiation factor 3).