Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, SLC7A1 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of SLC7A1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD), where SLC7A1 mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types SLC7A1 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as PDAC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
COAD, LSCC, and LUAD are the cancer types where SLC7A1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.