Predicted to enable leucine-tRNA ligase activity. Predicted to be involved in leucyl-tRNA aminoacylation and mitochondrial translation. Predicted to act upstream of or within tRNA aminoacylation for protein translation. Predicted to be active in mitochondrion. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Perrault syndrome. Orthologous to human LARS2 (leucyl-tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial).