Predicted to enable heat shock protein binding activity; heme binding activity; and monooxygenase activity. Acts upstream of or within response to bacterium. Predicted to be located in mitochondrial inner membrane. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm and intracellular membrane-bounded organelle. Is expressed in brain; embryo; liver; and lung. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in acute myeloid leukemia; human immunodeficiency virus infectious disease; and tuberculosis. Orthologous to human CYP2B6 (cytochrome P450 family 2 subfamily B member 6). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]