Activating signal co-integrator complex (ASCC) supports diverse genome maintenance and gene expression processes. Its ASCC3 subunit is an unconventional nucleic acid helicase, harboring tandem Ski2-like NTPase/helicase cassettes crucial for ASCC functions. Presently, the molecular mechanisms underlying ASCC3 helicase activity and regulation remain unresolved. Here, we present cryogenic electron microscopy, DNA-protein cross-linking/mass spectrometry as well as in vitro and cellular functional analyses of the ASCC3-ASC1/TRIP4 sub-module of ASCC. Unlike the related spliceosomal SNRNP200 RNA helicase, ASCC3 can thread substrates through both helicase cassettes. ASC1 docks on ASCC3 via a zinc nger domain and stimulates the helicase by positioning a C-terminal ASC1-homology domain next to the C-terminal helicase cassette of ASCC3, likely assisting the DNA exit. ASC1 binds ASCC3 mutually exclusively with the DNA/RNA dealkylase, ALKBH3, directing ASCC for speci c processes. Our ndings de ne ASCC3-ASC1/TRIP4 as a tunable motor module of ASCC that encompasses two cooperating ATPase/helicase units functionally expanded by ASC1/TRIP4. modi cation at position A4220 of 28S rRNA. 18 Furthermore, ASCC3 is required for e cient, ALKBH3dependent removal of m 1 A and m 3 C modi cations from mRNAs, and for alkylation-induced P-body formation. 19 ASCC3 contributes to all of the above ASCC-related functions. It is a large nucleic acid-dependent NTPase that can act as a 3'-to-5' translocase/helicase. 13,20 NTPase-fueled remodeling of nucleic acids or nucleic acid-protein complexes by ASCC3, therefore, likely constitute central activities for all of ASCC's diverse cellular roles. For example, during DNA alkylation damage repair, ASCC3 generates single-stranded DNA for dealkylation by ALKBH3. 13,14 Furthermore, mutations in conserved NTPase/helicase motifs of ASCC3 interfere with ASCC-mediated splitting of stalled ribosomes during ribosome or translation quality control [9][10][11][12] , and ASCC3 has been suggested to disassemble ribosomes collided on alkylated mRNAs for dealkylation by ALKBH3 19 .ASCC3 is an unconventional nucleic acid-dependent NTPase that is closely related to the spliceosomal RNA helicase, U5 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein 200 kDa (SNRNP200/BRR2). ASCC3 and SNRNP200 contain a tandem array of Ski2-like helicase cassettes (N-terminal cassette, NC; C-terminal cassette, CC), preceded by ~ 400-residue N-terminal regions that can auto-inhibit the helicase activities. [20][21][22] In SNRNP200, only the NC is an active NTPase and helicase, while the CC acts as an intra-molecular helicase co-factor. 21,23 In contrast, both helicase cassettes in ASCC3 may be enzymatically active. 12,13,20 However, presently the molecular mechanisms underlying ASCC3 nucleic acid translocase/helicase activities and its regulation are poorly understood.Here, we nd a hitherto unobserved mechanism of nucleic acid translocation/unwinding in ASCC3 and reveal that it is regulated by ASC1. Using cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM)/single-particle ...