Cure8 research brief
If true, the findings suggest that everyday chemicals (bisphenols) might influence immune pathways relevant to IBD and that RORC could be a molecular link — potentially relevant for researchers studying environmental triggers of IBD.
Researchers studying IBD pathogenesis, environmental health scientists, clinicians interested in IBD risk factors, and patients curious about environmental exposures and IBD triggers.
The authors combined computational network-toxicity methods, human genetic/transcriptomic data, single-cell and immune-infiltration analyses, molecular docking, and in vitro experiments.
They identified 50 genes overlapping between BP targets and IBD-related genes and prioritized RORC (with supporting MR, SMR, and colocalization evidence) as a candidate connecting BP exposure to IBD risk.
Lab work reported that BPA exposure amplified IL-17A-induced inflammatory responses in an intestinal epithelial cell model (HT29), consistent with the computational prediction that BPs could interact with RORC and modulate immune-related pathways.
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