YscYop
YscYop is a fictional protein complex used in speculative biology and science fiction to describe a hypothetical fusion of components from the Yersinia type III secretion system (T3SS). The name combines Ysc, the core secretion scaffold, with Yop, the family of effector proteins injected into host cells.
In this conceived model, YscYop functions as a single modular unit that assembles into a secretion apparatus
In origin, the term arose in educational simulations and SF-adjacent biology writings to illustrate principles of
The translocation signals are depicted as short N-terminal motifs recognized by the secretion machinery.
Applications in fiction and pedagogy focus on systems biology concepts such as protein-protein interactions, mutational analysis,
See also: Yersinia, Type III secretion system, Yop proteins, bacterial secretion.