| Primary Identifier | MGI:102483 | Organism | mouse, laboratory |
| Chromosome | MT | NCBI Gene Number | 17734 |
| Mgi Type | tRNA gene |
| description | FUNCTION: Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 8.0.0) Predicted to enable triplet codon-amino acid adaptor activity. Predicted to act upstream of or within translational elongation. Predicted to be located in mitochondrion. Used to study mitochondrial metabolism disease. Orthologous to human MT-TK (mitochondrially encoded tRNA-Lys (AAA/G)). PHENOTYPE: Transmitochondrial mice carrying high proportions of mutant G7731A mitochondrial DNA exhibit respiration defects in skeletal muscle and kidney, decreased body length, muscle weakeness, and absent oocytes. [provided by MGI curators] |