Predicted to enable heat shock protein binding activity. Predicted to be involved in protein targeting to mitochondrion. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in dorsal root ganglion; glossopharyngeal ganglion; olfactory epithelium; thymus primordium; and trigeminal ganglion. Orthologous to human TOMM34 (translocase of outer mitochondrial membrane 34). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]