Predicted to enable nucleic acid binding activity; nucleoside-triphosphatase activity; and ribosomal small subunit binding activity. Predicted to be involved in formation of translation preinitiation complex and ribosome assembly. Predicted to be part of cytosolic small ribosomal subunit and eukaryotic 43S preinitiation complex. Orthologous to human DHX29 (DExH-box helicase 29). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]