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Two distinct gonadotropins, GTH I and GTH II, were extracted with 35% ethanol-10% ammonium acetate, pH 6.1, from female chum salmon pituitary glands, and purified by ion-exchange chromatography on DE-52 and CM-Sephadex C-25 by stepwise elution, and gel filtration on Sephadex G-75. Gonadotropic activities of these preparations were demonstrated in vivo by stimulation of gonad growth in juvenile rainbow trout, and in vitro by enhancement of estradiol-17 beta production by amago salmon ovarian follicles. Molecular weights were estimated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to be 50,000 and 36,000 for GTH I and GTH II, respectively. Both gonadotropins are glycoproteins composed of two distinct subunits with N-terminal amino acid residues of Tyr/Gly for GTH I, and Tyr/Ser for GTH II. These results suggest the presence in teleost fish of two chemically distinct gonadotropic glycoproteins.
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