Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, OBSL1 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of OBSL1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where OBSL1 mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types OBSL1 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as PDAC and CCRCC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
PDAC, CCRCC, and LSCC are the cancer types where OBSL1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.