Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable translation initiation factor activity. Predicted to be involved in mitochondrial translational initiation. Predicted to act upstream of or within translation. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in liver lobe; testis; and vibrissa. Orthologous to human MTIF2 (mitochondrial translational initiation factor 2).