Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PLEKHA5 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of PLEKHA5’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma (OV), where PLEKHA5 mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types PLEKHA5 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as OV and CCRCC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
OV, CCRCC, and PDAC are the cancer types where PLEKHA5 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.