ACAT2

Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ACAT2 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 6 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of ACAT2’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.

The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where ACAT2 mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types ACAT2 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as HNSC and CCRCC show the opposite, repressed pattern.

HNSC, CCRCC, and LUAD are the cancer types where ACAT2 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.

mass-spec protein tumor vs normal associations by lineage

Ranked by sampling consensus. Fold-change is the tumor-versus-normal difference in ACAT2 mass-spec protein (log₂); positive values indicate higher expression in tumor. p-values are from the differential-expression test.

Lineage	Gender	Stage	Fold-change	p	Sampling consensus
HNSC	All	All	−0.453	<.001	12	view →
CCRCC	Male	IV	−0.479	<.001	9	view →
LUAD	Male	III,IV	−0.435	<.001	9	view →
COAD	All	II,III,IV	−0.272	<.001	8	view →
LSCC	Female	All	−0.307	<.001	6	view →
PDAC	Male	All	+0.324	.001	4	view →

Pink = over-expressed in tumor, green = repressed in tumor. Showing the 6 strongest of 6 lineages.

ACAT2–HNSC

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