Required for motile ciliary function. Probably involved in axonemal assembly of inner and outer dynein arms (IDA and ODA, respectively) for proper axoneme building for cilia motility. May act by indirectly regulating transcription of dynein proteins (By similarity). {ECO:0000250}.
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