Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable membrane insertase activity. Predicted to be involved in positive regulation of apoptotic process and protein insertion into mitochondrial outer membrane. Predicted to act upstream of or within apoptotic process. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in cerebral cortex marginal layer; choroid invagination; diencephalon roof plate; metencephalon part of 4th ventricle choroid plexus; and thyroid gland. Orthologous to human MTCH1 (mitochondrial carrier 1).