Summary.-Primary human squamous-cell lung tumours were disrupted using mechanical high-speed homogenization. Crude membranes were isolated by differential centrifugation at low speeds followed by 100,000 g centrifugation. Such membrane preparations were extracted with Triton-X-100 and passed over a DEAE cellulose column; the DEAE unbound fraction and the bound fraction eluted with 0-4M NaCl were used to immunize rabbits. We present here only data on a single lung-tumour-associated membrane antigen (TAMA) found in the unbound DEAE cellulose column eluates. This new Triton-X-100 extractable antigen is termed lung TAMA-1.A further purification of the antigen was achieved using two methods. The first used G-200 molecular-seive chromatography and this revealed lung TAMA-1 to have a mol. wt of 200,000. A second method used sucrose density-gradient isoelectric focusing, and the antigen had an isoelectric point of -3 0.Several important properties of the lung TAMA-1 were determined. The antigen has a cathodal gamma-type electrophoretic mobility at pH 7-6. The antigen was not detected in any normal human adult or foetal tissue extracts tested. It did not crossreact immunochemically with CEA, AFP or p2 microglobulin. Lung TAMA-1 was detected in 80% of lung tumour Triton-X-100 extracts tested by counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIEP) but was undetectable in breast or colon carcinoma extracts.Low frequency sonication did not deleteriously affect lung TAMA-1, but, 3M KCI eliminated its immunologic reactivity in CIEP. Finally, preliminary data were obtained using immunohistochemistry to localize in vivo lung TAMA-1 production.