... structures of isolated protein domains [2–6].Thus, Hsp70s are composed of a highly homologous N-terminal ATPase domain of 45 kDa, connected by a short linker to a more variable peptide-binding domain ... westudied the chimeras KKCC and KCCC constructed by domain swapping [18] (Fig. 1A). While maintain-ing the ATPase domain of DnaK, different regions of the more divergent substrate-binding domain wereexchanged: ... 5A), most of the tryptic sites at the C-terminal domain being sensitive to ATP as a consequence of interdomain allosteric coupling. In the absence of nuc-leotide or in the presence of ADP, tryptic...