A new purification procedure was started with salting-out fractionation of serum proteins at 45-75% saturated ammonium sulfate concentration, followed by HE agarose affinity chromatography by which calcium-dependently bound CRP and SAP were purely eluted with EDTA-containing buffer. 2. Pure CRP and SAP were finally separated by DEAE-5PW HPLC. 3. This procedure gave recovery of 15 and 26%, and fold purification of 2650 and 2400 for CRP and SAP, respectively. 4. Each subunit of CRP and SAP had one intrasubunit disulfide bond, determined by reduction and carboxymethylation.