Predicted to enable several functions, including nucleic acid binding activity; protein homodimerization activity; and serine-tRNA ligase activity. Predicted to be involved in negative regulation of angiogenesis; negative regulation of macromolecule metabolic process; and seryl-tRNA aminoacylation. Predicted to be located in cytoplasm. Predicted to be active in cytosol. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in intellectual disability. Orthologous to human SARS1 (seryl-tRNA synthetase 1). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]