“…The quantitative thermodynamic analysis of the character of proteinepolysaccharide interactions may be carried out through the value of the cross second virial coefficient (A 23 ) (Antipova & Semenova, 1995;Semenova, 1996; Semenova, Bolotina, Grinberg, & Tolstoguzov, 1990;Semenova & Savilova, 1998), which is directly related to the chemical potentials of each component in the mixed system at constant pressure and temperature. A positive value of the cross second virial coefficient is a characteristic of the thermodynamically unfavourable (repulsive) interactions between unlike biopolymers that lead to the rise in the magnitudes of their chemical potentials, i.e., to the increase in their thermodynamic activities in the mixed solutions.…”