Mitochondrial leucyl-tRNA synthetase; also has direct role in splicing of several mitochondrial group I introns; indirectly required for mitochondrial genome maintenance; human homolog LARS2 can complement yeast null mutant, and is implicated in Perrault syndrome [Source:SGD;Acc:S000004374]
LeuRS, MSL1, mitochondrial leucyl-tRNA synthetase
Chromosome XII: 882,067-884,751 reverse strand.
R64-1-1:BK006945.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 207 orthologues and 6 paralogues.