Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, NSMCE4A mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of NSMCE4A’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC), where NSMCE4A mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types NSMCE4A is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD and HNSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
CCRCC, LSCC, and LUAD are the cancer types where NSMCE4A tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.