Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, SEPTIN3 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of SEPTIN3’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where SEPTIN3 mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types SEPTIN3 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as PDAC and HNSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LUAD, PDAC, and HNSC are the cancer types where SEPTIN3 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.