Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable ATP binding activity and ligase activity. Predicted to be involved in glutaminyl-tRNAGln biosynthesis via transamidation and mitochondrial translation. Predicted to act upstream of or within translation. Located in mitochondrion. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency 42. Orthologous to human GATC (glutamyl-tRNA amidotransferase subunit C).