ATG4A

Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ATG4A mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of ATG4A’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.

The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where ATG4A mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types ATG4A is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as PDAC and HNSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.

PDAC, HNSC, and LUAD are the cancer types where ATG4A 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 ATG4A 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
PDAC	Female	All	−0.725	<.001	9	view →
HNSC	Male	II,III,IV	−0.335	<.001	8	view →
LUAD	All	All	−0.324	<.001	7	view →
COAD	Female	II,III,IV	−0.447	<.001	6	view →
LSCC	Male	II,III,IV	−0.364	<.001	5	view →

Pink = over-expressed in tumor, green = repressed in tumor. Showing the 5 strongest of 5 lineages.

ATG4A–PDAC

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