The virus has been shown to utilize the receptor tyrosine kinase AXL and its ligand Gas6 for viral entry (Meertens et al., 2017), albeit contradictory findings on the role of the receptor in ZIKV infection were reported (Wells et al., 2016; Hastings et al., 2017; Li et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2017). The gene discussed is GAS6; the disease is Zika virus infectious disease.