NCBI Accession #
NP_001312859.1
NCBI GenBank Nucleotide #
NM_001325930.1
NCBI Official Full Name
eukaryotic initiation factor 4A-15
NCBI Official Symbol
LOC107814763
NCBI Official Synonym Symbols
eIF-4A-15
NCBI Protein Information
eukaryotic initiation factor 4A-15; eukaryotic initiation factor 4A-15-like
UniProt Gene Name
eIF-4A-15
UniProt Synonym Gene Names
eIF-4A-15
UniProt Protein Name
Eukaryotic initiation factor 4A-15
UniProt Synonym Protein Names
ATP-dependent RNA helicase eIF4A-15
UniProt Primary Accession #
Q40468
UniProt Related Accession #
Q40468
UniProt Comments
ATP-dependent RNA helicase which is a subunit of the eIF4F complex involved in cap recognition and is required for mRNA binding to ribosome. In the current model of translation initiation, eIF4A unwinds RNA secondary structures in the 5'-UTR of mRNAs which is necessary to allow efficient binding of the small ribosomal subunit, and subsequent scanning for the initiator codon.