The normal tissue & organ summary section shows a summary of the antibody staining or the protein expression in a number of human tissues and organs. A description of the assay and annotation can be found
here. A summary text summarizes the protein expression/antibody staining data.
The normal tissue profile gives the number of cell types with expression/staining out of the total number of analysed cell types. The summary data can be based on one or more antibodies (reported by the "Antibodies in assay"-field). If the data is based on one single antibody, the IH validation score for that antibody is reported as "Reliability (Single)" (color-coding described
here). If the data is based on more than one antibody, the reliability score for the data is reported as "Reliability (
APE)" (color-coding described
here).
If the normal tissue & organ summary section is in yellow color scale, the values represent antibody staining from one single antibody. If the section is in blue scale, the values represent knowledge-based annotated protein expression based on two or more antibodies.
The analysed normal tissues are grouped into organs, and the number of annotated cell types for each organ type is given, followed by the annotated protein expression (blue color scale) or antibody staining (yellow color scale) in the annotated cell types. The intensity of the color represents the relative level of expression/staining, as described by the scale in the box to the right. In the bars, the fraction of the protein expression/antibody staining with certain intensity represents the percentage of the analysed cell types with that relative expression/staining.
In the example above (
ELF3), there are ten cell types annotated for female tissues. Two of the cell types have an annotated high level of protein expression. One of the cell types has medium level of protein expression and one cell type has a low level of protein expression, while the remaining six cell types do not express this protein.
The image to the left is a representative image for the antibody staining.
The "More Tissue Data"-button can be used to access the Normal tissue view, with detailed protein expression/antibody staining data on cell type level, including links to all annotated images.