Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, HEATR5B mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of HEATR5B’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC), where HEATR5B mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types HEATR5B is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as CCRCC and PDAC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
CCRCC, LSCC, and LUAD are the cancer types where HEATR5B tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.