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.
蛋白肽是一个蛋白
前体
的多肽序列,可以催化自身从蛋白
前体
断裂,使两侧的蛋白
外显肽连接成成熟的蛋白
。