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.
蛋白内含肽是一个蛋白
中的多肽序列,可以催化自身从蛋白
中断裂,
两侧的蛋白
外显肽连接成成熟的蛋白
。