About the Authors

Suman K. Vodnala

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Marcela Ferella

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Hilda Lundén-Miguel

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Evans Betha

Affiliation Tropical Diseases Research Center, Ndola Central, Ndola, Zambia

Nick van Reet

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Daniel Ndem Amin

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Bo Öberg

Affiliation Medivir AB, Huddinge, Sweden

Björn Andersson

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Krister Kristensson

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Hans Wigzell

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Martin E. Rottenberg

Martin.Rottenberg@ki.se

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

HW is with a patent filed 30/11/1994 by Boston University on the use of cordycepin and deoxycoformycin for treatment of cancer and infectious diseases.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK HW MER. Performed the experiments: SKV MF HLM EB NVR DNA. Analyzed the data: SKV MF HLM EB B MER. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NVR B BA. Wrote the paper: KK HW MER.