Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable leucine-tRNA ligase activity. Predicted to be involved in leucyl-tRNA aminoacylation and mitochondrial translation. Predicted to act upstream of or within translation. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in lens and pancreas epithelium. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Perrault syndrome. Orthologous to human LARS2 (leucyl-tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial).