“…They can act as prodrugs and, once introduced inside cells by the plasma membrane nucleoside transporters, require intracellular phosphorylation to generate their pharmacologically active triphosphate form [ 38 ]. Many investigations have focused on the study of the synthesis, structural features, and antitumor and/or antiviral biological effects of platinated nucleotides [ 74 , 79 , 89 , 126 , 127 , 128 , 129 , 130 , 131 , 132 , 133 ]. Recently, our research efforts were devoted to a deeper comprehension of the cellular metabolic mechanisms involving some model platinated nucleos(t)ides, to confirm their potential as antimetabolites.…”