Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 8.3.0)
Enables L-tyrosine-2-oxoglutarate transaminase activity. Involved in 2-oxoglutarate metabolic process; L-tyrosine catabolic process; and glutamate metabolic process. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in liver. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in tyrosinemia and tyrosinemia type II. Orthologous to human TAT (tyrosine aminotransferase).
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