Alpha-amino acid metabolic process

associated omics data
GO:1901605Ontology (GO BP)GO biological process · ~207 member genes

Q-omics provides the Alpha-amino acid metabolic process (GO:1901605) pathway profile, scoring each patient from the combined activity of its roughly 207 member genes. Pathway activity is associated with patient survival in 25 of 34 cancer types, with the highest sampling consensus in OV. Among the 18 cancer types available for tumor–normal comparison, the pathway is differentially active in 12, with the highest sampling consensus in KIRP. Additionally, pathway RNA activity shows 36,764 significant cross-omics associations, again with the highest sampling consensus in HNSC. Together, these results highlight OV, KIRP, and HNSC 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 Alpha-amino acid metabolic process survival associations by molecular data type. RNA-level pathway activity shows survival associations in the most cancer types (25). 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–Meier25OV (58)view →
GO function (Protein (mass-spec))Kaplan–Meier6UCEC (34)view →
This table ranks reproducible pathway activity–survival associations across cancer types. High Alpha-amino acid metabolic process activity shows favorable associations in OV, KIRP and LUSC, but unfavorable associations in THCA, THYM and ESCA. In the OV Kaplan–Meier curve the low-activity group declines faster, consistent with the favorable association (log-rank p = .007). OV ranks highest by sampling consensus for Alpha-amino acid metabolic process.
LineageMeasureSplitStageAUC1
high
AUC2
low
pSampling consensus
OVOSMedianIII,IV0.3770.282.00758view →
THCAOSMedianII,III,IV0.3261.000.00245view →
KIRPDFSMedianIV0.5930.039.00839view →
THYMDFSTertileAll0.7410.928.00436view →
ESCAOSMedianAll0.6171.000.00930view →
LUSCOSTertileAll0.7740.629.00924view →
Pink = unfavorable, green = favorable. all 25 lineages →

Alpha-amino acid metabolic process-OV (OS)

Kaplan–Meier survival curve for Alpha-amino acid metabolic process pathway activity in OV: high vs low activity groups.

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Tumor vs Normal activity

This table summarizes Alpha-amino acid metabolic process tumor–normal activity differences by data type. RNA-level activity shows significant tumor–normal differences in 12 cancer types, while mass-spec protein activity shows differences in 5. The strongest signals are in KIRP for RNA and CCRCC for protein.
Data typeActivity analysisLineage consensusLineage of highest sampling consensus
GO function (RNA)Box plot12KIRP (11)view →
GO function (Protein (mass-spec))Box plot5CCRCC (10)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 LUAD and COAD and lower tumor activity in KIRP, KICH, LIHC and KIRC. In the KIRP box plot, normal samples show higher pathway activity than tumor samples (log2 FC = −0.058, t-test p < 0.001).
LineageGenderStageFold-changepSampling consensus
KIRPMaleAll−0.058<.00111view →
KICHFemaleII,III,IV−0.072<.0018view →
LIHCFemaleAll−0.049<.0018view →
LUADMaleAll+0.024<.0018view →
KIRCMaleAll−0.023<.0017view →
COADAllII,III,IV+0.014<.0017view →
Pink = higher activity in tumor. all 12 lineages →

Alpha-amino acid metabolic process-KIRP

Tumor-vs-normal pathway-activity box plot for Alpha-amino acid metabolic process in KIRP.

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Cross-omics associations

This table shows molecular features associated with Alpha-amino acid metabolic process 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 HNSC. In cancer cell lines, RNA-expression features and functional dependencies dominate, with the largest set in SKIN.
Associated data typeStrength (# associated data)Lineage of highest associated data
RNA
RNA36,764HNSC (20901)view →
Protein (mass-spec)13,553GBM (4335)view →
Protein (mass-spec)
Protein (mass-spec)23,162LSCC (5814)view →
RNA10,119LSCC (5617)view →
Associated data typeStrength (# associated data)Lineage of highest associated data
CRISPR
RNA2,455SKIN (827)view →
CRISPR2,312PANCREAS (218)view →
RNA
RNA8,095BLOOD_Leukemia (2138)view →
CRISPR2,021LIVER (222)view →
Protein (mass-spec)
RNA3,302BONE (879)view →
CRISPR1,738SOFT_TISSUE (197)view →
shRNA
shRNA999CNS (191)view →
RNA659KIDNEY (90)view →