Intein is an intervening polypeptide which can catalytic self-cleavage from a pre-protein accompanied by the concomitant joining of the two flanking polypeptides (the extein) through a peptide bond.
内含肽是一个
前体中的多肽序列,可以催化自身从
前体中断裂,
两侧的
外显肽连接成成熟的
。