MCM4/YPR019W Locus History

Nomenclature History
Standard Name	Reference
MCM4	Merchant AM, et al. (1997) A lesion in the DNA replication initiation factor Mcm10 induces pausing of elongation forks through chromosomal replication origins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol 17(6):3261-71

Other Name(s)	Reference
CDC54	Hennessy KM, et al. (1991) A group of interacting yeast DNA replication genes. Genes Dev 5(6):958-69
HCD21	Coxon A, et al. (1992) Fission yeast cdc21+ belongs to a family of proteins involved in an early step of chromosome replication. Nucleic Acids Res 20(21):5571-7

Nomenclature History Notes
Date	Note
2007-09-14	The standard gene name of ORF YPR019W was changed from CDC54 to its current alias MCM4.
	Merchant AM, et al. (1997) A lesion in the DNA replication initiation factor Mcm10 induces pausing of elongation forks through chromosomal replication origins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol 17(6):3261-71
	Hennessy KM, et al. (1991) A group of interacting yeast DNA replication genes. Genes Dev 5(6):958-69

Mapping Notes
Date	Note
1998-11-10	Edition 15: The naming of CDC54 to MCM4 was adopted by the research community in order to minimize confusions in the cross-referencing of members of this family of proteins (Mcm2-7) in other eukaryotes
	Cherry JM, et al. (1998) "Genetic and Physical Maps of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Edition 15)". Pp. 414-420 in 1998 Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting Program and Abstracts. Bethesda, MD: The Genetics Society of America
1998-11-10	Edition 15: member of the MCM/P1-family of genes which play a role in the licensing of DNA replication; others members of this family include : MCM2, MCM3, MCM5 (CDC46), MCM6, and MCM7 (CDC47)
	Cherry JM, et al. (1998) "Genetic and Physical Maps of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Edition 15)". Pp. 414-420 in 1998 Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting Program and Abstracts. Bethesda, MD: The Genetics Society of America