[Characteristics of carbohydrate chains of two forms of salmon gonadotropic hormone binding and not binding concanavalin A].

A comparative analysis of carbohydrate chains of two forms of hunchback salmon gonadotropin that bind or not with ConA-Sepharose was carried out. It was found that unbound, "protein", ConA(-)-form contains three times less carbohydrates and has slightly different amino acid composition as compared to the bound, normally glycosylated ConA(+)-form. HPLC fractionation showed the oligosaccharides released from both hormone forms to be mainly sialylated.