Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase activity and metal ion binding activity. Predicted to be involved in aromatic amino acid metabolic process. Located in mitochondrion. Used to study neurodegenerative disease. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in hereditary spastic paraplegia 83. Orthologous to human HPDL (4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase like).