Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ATP9B mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of ATP9B’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where ATP9B mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types ATP9B 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 ATP9B tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.