Predicted to enable GTPase activity and translation elongation factor activity. Predicted to be involved in mitochondrial translational elongation. Predicted to act upstream of or within translational elongation. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in embryo and extraembryonic component. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency 1. Orthologous to human GFM1 (G elongation factor mitochondrial 1). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]