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“Seven chymotryptic cleavage sites, Trp(60), Phe(61), Phe(75), Phe(84), Phe(113), Phe(118), and Tyr(122), located near or within the core alpha-crystallin domain, were shielded from the action of chymotrypsin in the presence of ATP.”
“The chymotryptic split appears to disrupt antagonistic interactions between cation and ATP binding domains, while the E1-E2 conformational transition of the unphosphorylated protein probably remains.”
“The presence of ATP restricts both trypsin and chymotrypsin proteolysis to the N-terminal and C-terminal regions described above, resulting in the preferential stabilization of the tetrameric form of phosphofructokinase.”