Predicted to enable carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase activity. Predicted to be involved in carnitine metabolic process and fatty acid metabolic process. Predicted to act upstream of or within lipid metabolic process. Predicted to be located in membrane. Predicted to be active in mitochondrion. Is expressed in EVL; periderm; and polster. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in carnitine palmitoyltransferase I deficiency; hereditary spastic paraplegia 73; and lipid metabolism disorder. Orthologous to human CPT1A (carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1A) and CPT1C (carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1C).