The serum must be separated from the whole blood and about 900 µL of serum has to incubated with 100 µL of the intended radio-complex at 37 ºC up to 1 hour. 1mL of 10% TCA add to the complex and the centrifuge mixture at 2000 rpm for 5 minutes. Supernatant collect in a different tube, marked as S-1 and the pellet resuspend in 1mL of 5% TCA and centrifuge again at 2000 rpm for 5 minutes The supernatant collect in separate tube and marked as S-2. Radioactivity measured in both the precipitate and supernatant fraction (S-1+S-2) in a well type NaI based gamma spectrometer. Protein binding of the radio-complex can be express as a percent fraction of radioactivity bound to protein to that of the total radioactivity. The following formula use for the calculation of percentage protein binding
Protein Binding (%) = Counts in pellet/Total counts (Pellet+S-1+S-2) × 100.