ATP-dependent RNA helicase of the DEAD-box protein family; has strong preference for dsRNA; interacts with YRA1; required for assembly of Yra1p, Nab2p and Mex67p onto mRNA and formation of nuclear mRNP; involved in mRNA decay and rRNA processing; may be involved in suppression of transcription from cryptic initiation sites [Source:SGD;Acc:S000005056]

Chromosome XIV: 413,639-416,281 forward strand.

R64-1-1:BK006947.3

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 391 orthologues and 26 paralogues.

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