Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ALS2CL mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of ALS2CL’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where ALS2CL mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types ALS2CL is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as HNSC and LSCC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
HNSC, LSCC, and LUAD are the cancer types where ALS2CL tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.