Predicted to enable metalloendopeptidase activity. Predicted to be involved in peptide metabolic process and protein processing involved in protein targeting to mitochondrion. Predicted to act upstream of or within proteolysis. Predicted to be active in mitochondrion. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency 31. Orthologous to human MIPEP (mitochondrial intermediate peptidase).