EIF4A1

Gene Information
  • Official Symbol: EIF4A1
  • Official Name: eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4A1
  • Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
  • Entrez ID: 1973
  • UniProt: P60842
  • Interactions: BioGRID
  • PubMed articles: Open PubMed
  • OMIM: Open OMIM
Function Summary
  • Entrez Summary: N/A
  • UniProt Summary: 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. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:19153607, ECO:0000269|PubMed:19204291}.

Pfam Domains GO Terms


CRISPR Data

Compound Hit Most Correlated Genes in Chemogenomics Tissues where Essential in the Avana Dataset (DepMap 20Q1)

Essentiality in NALM6
  • Essentiality Rank: 2493
  • Expression level (log2 read counts): 9.3

Expression Distribution

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