Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, TAF4B mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 1 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of TAF4B’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where TAF4B mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types TAF4B is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LUAD are the cancer types where TAF4B tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.