Predicted to enable carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase activity. Predicted to be involved in fatty acid beta-oxidation. Predicted to act upstream of or within fatty acid metabolic process. Predicted to be located in mitochondrial inner membrane. Predicted to be active in mitochondrion. Is expressed in cardiac ventricle; intestine; and liver. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in brain disease; lipid metabolism disorder; and muscular disease. Orthologous to human CPT2 (carnitine palmitoyltransferase 2).