Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable RNA endonuclease activity. Acts upstream of or within endonucleolytic cleavage in 5'-ETS of tricistronic rRNA transcript (SSU-rRNA, 5.8S rRNA, LSU-rRNA) and endonucleolytic cleavage in ITS1 to separate SSU-rRNA from 5.8S rRNA and LSU-rRNA from tricistronic rRNA transcript (SSU-rRNA, 5.8S rRNA, LSU-rRNA). Located in nucleolus. Is expressed in several structures, including axial musculature; cerebral cortex; gut; liver lobe; and submandibular gland primordium. Orthologous to human RCL1 (RNA terminal phosphate cyclase like 1).