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The early work of Cunningham et al. (1951) described the isolation of cordycepin from the culture broth of Cordyceps militaris (Linn) Link, and for approximately ten years this organism provided the chief source of cordycepin for the studies to be reported below. More recently Frederiksen et al. (1965) reported on its isolation from another strain of the same organism [Cordyceps militaris (L. Ex. Fr.) Link.] and Kaczka et al. (1964a) reported on the isolation and identification of this compound from cultures of Aspergillus nidulans (Eidam) Wint. To date, these appear to be the only organisms from which the nucleoside has been identified. Several routes for the chemical synthesis of this compound have been reported by Todd and Ulbricht (1960), Lee et al. (1961) and Walton et al. (1964).
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Guarino, A.J. (1967). Cordycepin. In: Gottlieb, D., Shaw, P.D. (eds) Mechanism of Action. Antibiotics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46051-7_38
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