cordycepin

CHEBI:29014 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

Cordycepin is an experimental nucleoside antibiotic which has been shown to exhibit activity against H. pylori. It is produced by the Cordyceps fungus, which is used in traditional Chinese medicine. — PMID:35191475

Machine-generated and unreviewed. Identity, structure and cross-references come straight from ChEBI's and CARD's own data; no curator has signed off on this record yet.

Classification

nucleoside antibioticARO:3000034

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

Label unavailable CHEBI:22260
Label unavailable CHEBI:36987
nucleoside antibiotic ARO:3000034

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C10H13N5O3
Charge	0
Average mass	251.246 Da
Monoisotopic mass	251.10184 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	OFEZSBMBBKLLBJ-BAJZRUMYSA-N

SMILES

Nc1ncnc2c1ncn2[C@@H]1O[C@H](CO)C[C@H]1O

InChI

InChI=1S/C10H13N5O3/c11-8-7-9(13-3-12-8)15(4-14-7)10-6(17)1-5(2-16)18-10/h3-6,10,16-17H,1-2H2,(H2,11,12,13)/t5-,6+,10+/m0/s1

Also called

3'-deoxyadenosine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
9-(beta-D-3'-Deoxyribofuranosyl)adenine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
9-Cordyceposidoadenine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
9H-Purine, 6-amino-9-(3-deoxy-beta-D-ribofuranosyl)- (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Cordycepin (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Cordycepine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
cordycepine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— aro

Cross-references

Identifiers for this same structure in other resources. An accession that lands on two different structures in this corpus is withheld from both rather than shown here, since it names at most one of them.

Activity roles

Every antimicrobial role a source asserts for this compound — the unreduced evidence behind its antimicrobial_class.

nucleoside antibiotic CHEBI:25605

Source concepts

Every upstream concept that resolved to this record. The merge is the product: this is what shows ChEBI and CARD are describing the same structure.

Upstream concepts merged into this record
Source	Native ID	Label	Minted CURIE	Version
ARO	`ARO:3007139`	cordycepin	`antibioticmech:aro-29156bb40e`	2026-08-30
CHEBI	`CHEBI:29014`	cordycepin	`antibioticmech:chebi-ccd8f5066f`	2026-08-30

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (ARO, CHEBI)
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories

Provenance

Seeded by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record (YAML).

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