Cordycepin

Cordycepin is a nucleoside (adenosine analog) antibiotic that acts as a polyadenylation inhibitor when converted to 3’-deoxyadenosine triphosphate (3'-dATP), which inhibits ATP-dependent DNA and RNA synthesis. Cordycepin has a broad spectrum of biological activities, including anticancer, anti-proliferative, pro-apoptotic, anti-inflammatory and antifungal effects. It was shown to modulate autophagy and NLRP3 inflammasome. Cordycepin has been shown to reduce poly(A) tail length in mRNA, to activate AMPK kinase, leading to a reduction in mTOR signalling, downregulate ERK/Akt/PI3K/GSK-3beta/beta-catenin signaling pathways. Also useful for the study of messenger RNA transcription.