Positive regulation of stress-activated protein kinase signaling cascade

associated omics data
GO:0070304Ontology (GO BP)GO biological process · ~124 member genes

Q-omics provides the Positive regulation of stress-activated protein kinase signaling cascade (GO:0070304) pathway profile, scoring each patient from the combined activity of its roughly 124 member genes. Pathway activity is associated with patient survival in 21 of 34 cancer types, with the highest sampling consensus in HNSC. Among the 18 cancer types available for tumor–normal comparison, the pathway is differentially active in 11, with the highest sampling consensus in KICH. Additionally, pathway RNA activity shows 36,757 significant cross-omics associations, again with the highest sampling consensus in STAD. Together, these results highlight HNSC, KICH, and STAD as cancer lineages where the pathway shows reproducible signals across outcome, tissue activity, and molecular association analyses.

Every result is evaluated using two consensus scores. Sampling consensus measures how consistently a finding is reproduced within a cancer lineage across different conditions. Lineage consensus measures how broadly the result is shared across cancer types, distinguishing pan-cancer signals from lineage-specific patterns. Pathway-against-pathway and pathway-against-mutation comparisons are not available for ontology entities.

Survival associations

This table summarizes Positive regulation of stress-activated protein kinase signaling cascade survival associations by molecular data type. RNA-level pathway activity shows survival associations in the most cancer types (21). The rightmost column indicates the cancer type with the highest sampling consensus for each layer.
Data typeSurvival analysisLineage consensusLineage of highest sampling consensus
GO function (RNA)Kaplan–Meier21HNSC (78)view →
GO function (Protein (mass-spec))Kaplan–Meier5CCRCC (30)view →
This table ranks reproducible pathway activity–survival associations across cancer types. High Positive regulation of stress-activated protein kinase signaling cascade activity shows favorable associations in HNSC, SKCM and LUAD, but unfavorable associations in LGG, THCA and LUSC. In the HNSC Kaplan–Meier curve the low-activity group declines faster, consistent with the favorable association (log-rank p < 0.001). HNSC ranks highest by sampling consensus for Positive regulation of stress-activated protein kinase signaling cascade.
LineageMeasureSplitStageAUC1
high
AUC2
low
pSampling consensus
HNSCDFSTertileIV0.5560.265<.00178view →
SKCMOSTertileAll0.4130.257<.00169view →
LGGDFSMedianAll0.6620.799<.00147view →
THCAOSTertileII,III,IV0.8891.000.00445view →
LUADOSMedianIII,IV0.6330.279.00745view →
LUSCDFSQuartileII,III,IV0.4340.641.01429view →
Pink = unfavorable, green = favorable. all 21 lineages →

Positive regulation of stress-activated protein kinase signaling cascade-HNSC (DFS)

Kaplan–Meier survival curve for Positive regulation of stress-activated protein kinase signaling cascade pathway activity in HNSC: high vs low activity groups.

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Tumor vs Normal activity

This table summarizes Positive regulation of stress-activated protein kinase signaling cascade tumor–normal activity differences by data type. RNA-level activity shows significant tumor–normal differences in 11 cancer types, while mass-spec protein activity shows differences in 5. The strongest signals are in KICH for RNA and CCRCC for protein.
Data typeActivity analysisLineage consensusLineage of highest sampling consensus
GO function (RNA)Box plot11KICH (10)view →
GO function (Protein (mass-spec))Box plot5CCRCC (12)view →
This table ranks reproducible tumor–normal activity differences for the pathway. A positive fold-change indicates higher activity in tumor tissue. The pathway shows higher tumor activity across COAD and lower tumor activity in KICH, LUSC, UCEC, BRCA and THCA. In the KICH box plot, normal samples show higher pathway activity than tumor samples (log2 FC = −0.068, t-test p < 0.001).
LineageGenderStageFold-changepSampling consensus
KICHAllIII,IV−0.068<.00110view →
LUSCFemaleAll−0.050<.0018view →
UCECAllII,III,IV−0.055<.0016view →
BRCAAllIII,IV−0.038<.0016view →
COADAllIV+0.032<.0016view →
THCAMaleAll−0.029<.0016view →
Pink = higher activity in tumor. all 11 lineages →

Positive regulation of stress-activated protein kinase signaling cascade-KICH

Tumor-vs-normal pathway-activity box plot for Positive regulation of stress-activated protein kinase signaling cascade in KICH.

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Cross-omics associations

This table shows molecular features associated with Positive regulation of stress-activated protein kinase signaling cascade pathway activity in patient tissues and cancer cell lines. In patient samples, pathway activity is most strongly linked to RNA and protein features, with the largest associated set in STAD. In cancer cell lines, RNA-expression features and functional dependencies dominate, with the largest set in CNS.
Associated data typeStrength (# associated data)Lineage of highest associated data
RNA
RNA36,757STAD (24466)view →
Protein (mass-spec)18,400LSCC (8668)view →
Protein (mass-spec)
Protein (mass-spec)8,954HNSC (1638)view →
RNA4,237CCRCC (2317)view →
Associated data typeStrength (# associated data)Lineage of highest associated data
CRISPR
CRISPR1,540CNS (212)view →
RNA1,043CNS (206)view →
RNA
RNA8,295BONE (3376)view →
shRNA2,192CNS (291)view →
Protein (mass-spec)
RNA1,226BLOOD_Lymphoma (292)view →
Protein (mass-spec)924BLOOD_Lymphoma (325)view →
shRNA
shRNA1,122CNS (222)view →
RNA828CNS (243)view →