This is a nuclear gene encoding a protein that functions in mitochondrial and peroxisomal fission. The encoded protein recruits dynamin-1-like protein (DNM1L) to mitochondria. There are multiple pseudogenes for this gene on chromosomes 1, 5, and X. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2013],C2orf33, EMPF2, GL004,Apoptosis,Cell Biology & Developmental Biology,Endocrine & Metabolism,Mitochondrial metabolism,Mitochondrial metabolism_Mitochondrial markers,MFF