Description
Contributes to NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone) activity. Predicted to be involved in electron transport coupled proton transport; mitochondrial electron transport, NADH to ubiquinone; and mitochondrial respiratory chain complex I assembly. Located in mitochondrion. Is expressed in central nervous system; heart; liver; metanephros; and retina. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Leber hereditary optic neuropathy; Leigh disease; and MELAS syndrome. Orthologous to human MT-ND5 (mitochondrially encoded NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase core subunit 5).