Predicted to enable histidine-tRNA ligase activity and identical protein binding activity. Predicted to be involved in histidyl-tRNA aminoacylation. Predicted to be active in cytosol and mitochondrion. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Perrault syndrome. Orthologous to human HARS2 (histidyl-tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]