Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, NT5C1A mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of NT5C1A’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC), where NT5C1A mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types NT5C1A is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as CCRCC and HNSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
CCRCC, HNSC, and LUAD are the cancer types where NT5C1A tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.