AXL and Zika virus infectious disease: It is reported that AXL is required for efficient ZIKV infection in Sertoli cells, brain glial cells, astrocytes, and endothelial cells (Hamel et al., 2015; Liu et al., 2016; Meertens et al., 2017; Richard et al., 2017; Chen et al., 2018; Strange et al., 2019).