How would you assess protein binding adjusted EC50 for a drug that has a binding rate of over 95%?

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I'm in need of a reference or a method to come up with a protocol that allows one to get the protein-adjusted EC50 for an antiviral drug in presence of human serum albumin and acid glycoprotein.

Jos Buijs

If you want to access EC50 on live cells you could try the approach as published in the following article: Article New approaches for the reliable in vitro assessment of bindi...

In this article, a radioactive label was used but you could do the same with a fluorescent label (and use LigandTracer Green) and perform competition experiments.

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