Lead compound

Lead compound

A lead compound (i.e. the "leading" compound, not lead metal) in drug discovery is a chemical compound that has pharmacological or biological activity and whose chemical structure is used as a starting point for chemical modifications in order to improve potency, selectivity, or pharmacokinetic parameters.

Lead compounds are often found in high-throughput screenings ("hits") or are secondary metabolites from natural sources.

Newly invented pharmacologically active moieties may have poor druglikeness and may require chemical modification to become drug-like enough to be tested biologically or clinically.

See also

* High-throughput screening
* Drug development
* Drug design
* Rational drug design
* Drug discovery
* Drug discovery hit to lead


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