Purification of nine plasma proteinase inhibitors and one zymogen from a single batch of human plasma, using affinity chromatography has been accomplished. Those isolated were plasminogen (lysine-Sepharose), alpha-2-antiplasmin (plasminogen-Sepharose), high and low molecular weight kini^gens (CM-papain-Sepharose), alpha-2-macroglobulin (Zn chelate-Sepharose), alpha-1-proteinase inhibitor, alpha-l-antichymotrypsin, Cl-inhibitor, inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor (Blue-Sepharose) and antithrombin III (heparin-Sepharose). Alpha-2-macroglobulin and alpha-l-proteinase inhibitor required gel filtration as additional purification steps. Each protein was recovered in both high yield and purity. © 1990, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.