Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable ferric iron binding activity and ferrous iron binding activity. Predicted to be involved in intracellular sequestering of iron ion. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm. Is expressed in early conceptus and testis. Orthologous to human FTH1P19 (ferritin heavy chain 1 pseudogene 19) and FTHL17 (ferritin heavy chain like 17).