Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PRSS27 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 1 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of PRSS27’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where PRSS27 mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types PRSS27 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as HNSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
HNSC are the cancer types where PRSS27 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.