Abstract

A method to determine the apparent coordinates of critical points and effective values of the second virial coefficients in water-protein-neutral polymer systems enabling one to obtain the above values from data on the phase analysis within a restricted region of two-phase compositions has been proposed. The data obtained by this method for the coordinates of the critical points and binodals in water-bovine serum albumin-dextran (W-BSA-D) and waterbovine serum albumin-polyethylene glycol (W-BSA-PEG) systems are compared with experimentally determinated. Several peculiarities of the mechanism of the phase separation in above systems have been outlined in the course of this study.

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