“…Nucleosides of this type are recognized by many receptors and enzymes due to their structural similarity to the natural nucleosides, however they display increased stability towards phosphorylase- and hydrolase-induced cleavage of the pseudo-glycosidic bond. Moreover, they possess a wide spectrum of biological activity, particularly, antiviral and anticancer properties [19,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33]. Unfortunately, in some cases they have exhibited significant toxicity as a result of their conversion to triphosphate forms, which closely resemble natural nucleoside triphosphates (NTP), thus resulting in unwanted recognition by ATP metabolizing enzymes [34,35,36].…”