Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, GUCA2B mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of GUCA2B’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where GUCA2B mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types GUCA2B is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as HNSC and PDAC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
HNSC, PDAC, and LSCC are the cancer types where GUCA2B tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.