Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, RPL32P21 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of RPL32P21’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD), where RPL32P21 mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types RPL32P21 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as COAD and LSCC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
COAD, PDAC, and LSCC are the cancer types where RPL32P21 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.