David R. Gies

TL;DR: The identification of ligands for Tyro 3 and Axl (alternatively, Ark or UFO), members of a previously orphan family of receptor-like tyrosine kinases, correspond to protein S, a protease regulator that is a potent anticoagulant, and Gas6, a protein related toprotein S but lacking any known function.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that agrin acts via a receptor complex that includes MuSK as well as a myotube-specific accessory component, which is a receptor tyrosine kinase localized to the motor endplate.

TL;DR: A neurotrophin is isolated from both human and rat genomic DNA that appears to represent the mammalian counterpart of Xenopus/viper NT-4, which has many unusual features compared to the previously identified neurotrophins and is less conserved evolutionarily than the other neurotrophs.

TL;DR: Identification of MuSK introduces a novel receptor-factor system that seems sure to play an important and selective role in many aspects of skeletal muscle development and function.

TL;DR: This paper identified transcripts encoding several different forms of rat TrkC, a member of the Trk family of receptor tyrosine kinases that serves as a receptor for neurotrophin-3.