Predicted to enable ferrous iron binding activity and peptidyl-proline 4-dioxygenase activity. Involved in regulation of cell population proliferation. Predicted to be located in cytosol. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm and nucleus. Biomarker of acute kidney failure and myocardial infarction. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in renal cell carcinoma. Orthologous to human EGLN3 (egl-9 family hypoxia inducible factor 3). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]