Predicted to enable 4 iron, 4 sulfur cluster binding activity. Predicted to be involved in several processes, including iron-sulfur cluster assembly; oxygen homeostasis; and response to hypoxia. Predicted to act upstream of or within hematopoietic progenitor cell differentiation. Predicted to be part of CIA complex. Orthologous to human CIAO3 (cytosolic iron-sulfur assembly component 3). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]