Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Contributes to translation initiation factor activity. Involved in translational initiation. Located in fibrillar center and nucleoplasm. Part of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 complex. Is active in synapse. Is expressed in thymus primordium. Orthologous to human EIF3L (eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 subunit L).