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.

蛋含肽是一个蛋前体中的多肽序列，可以催化自身从蛋前体中断裂，两侧的蛋外显肽连接成成熟的蛋。