Predicted to enable 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase activity and metal ion binding activity. Predicted to be involved in aromatic amino acid family metabolic process. Located in mitochondrion. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in hereditary spastic paraplegia. Orthologous to human HPDL (4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase like). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]