NCBI Accession #
NP_566469.1
NCBI GenBank Nucleotide #
NM_112246.4
NCBI Official Full Name
eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4A1
NCBI Official Symbol
EIF4A1
NCBI Official Synonym Symbols
eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4A1; RH4; TIF4A1
NCBI Protein Information
eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4A1
NCBI Summary
eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4A-1
UniProt Gene Name
TIF4A-1
UniProt Synonym Gene Names
RH4; eIF-4A-1
UniProt Protein Name
Eukaryotic initiation factor 4A-1
UniProt Synonym Protein Names
ATP-dependent RNA helicase eIF4A-1; DEAD-box ATP-dependent RNA helicase 4
UniProt Primary Accession #
P41376
UniProt Secondary Accession #
Q0WWD9; Q546P0; Q8LBZ6; Q8RXF3; Q94CM1
UniProt Related Accession #
P41376
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.