How to map the Gene name to its Gene Symbol?
Unfortunately, protein and gene name mapping is one of the most annoying problems in modern computational biology. There is no surefire way of doing this. Especially from hopeless gene names as the one in the paper you cite. Here are a few services you can try though:


General, text search, useful if you have a gene description (as in the case described in your question): 


NCBI Entrez,
UniProt search

Mapping servers, useful if you have an actual gene/protein symbol/name (e.g. P53_HUMAN, AF240684, NP_001119585 etc)


UniProt ID Mapping
DAVID Gene ID Conversion Tool