“…AXL is a putative cell receptor for Zika virus ( Nowakowski et al, 2016 ), and implicated in mediating cell entry via the endosome pathway by SRAR-CoV-2 ( Bohan et al, 2021 ). CD147 is a membrane glycoprotein known to be involved in infection by eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral pathogens ( Fenizia et al, 2021 ), and may also bind to SARS-2S and mediate the cell entry of SARS-CoV-2 through endocytosis ( Brodowski et al, 2022 ; Cavezzi et al, 2022 ; Kalejaiye et al, 2022 ), although infection mediated by CD147 is most likely secondary because CD147 is highly expressed in neural tissues but not in respiratory tract ( Qiao et al, 2020 ). Both genes appear weakly expressed in lungs based on tissue-specific gene expression data in The Human Protein Atlas ( Uhlén et al, 2015 ).…”