Neurological complications of AIDS (NeuroAIDS) include primary HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND). OAS3 is an enzyme belonging to the 2', 5' oligoadenylate synthase family induced by type I interferons and involved in the degradation of both viral and endogenous RNA. Here, we used microarray datasets from NCBI of brain samples of non-demented HIV-negative controls (NDC), HIV, deceased patients with HAND and encephalitis (HIVE) (treated and untreated with antiretroviral therapy, ART), and with HAND without HIVE. The HAND/HIVE patients were stratified according to the OAS3 gene expression. The genes positively and negatively correlated to the OAS3 gene expression were used to perform a genomic deconvolution analysis using neuroimmune signatures (NIS) belonging to sixteen signatures. Expression analysis revealed significantly higher OAS3 expression in HAND/HIVE and HAND/HIVE/ART compared with NDC. OAS3 expressed an excellent diagnostic ability to discriminate NDC from HAND/HIVE, HAND from HAND/HIVE, HAND from HAND/HIVE/ART, and HIV from HAND/HIVE. Noteworthy, OAS3 expression levels in the brains of HAND/HIVE patients were positively correlated with viral load in both peripheral blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Furthermore, deconvolution analysis revealed that the genes positively correlated to OAS3 expression were associated with inflammatory signatures. Neuronal activation profiles were significantly activated by the genes negatively correlated to OAS3 expression levels. Moreover, gene ontology analysis performed on genes characterizing the microglia signature highlighted an immune response as a main biological process. According to our results, genes positively correlated to OAS3 gene expression in the brains of HAND/HIVE patients are associated with inflammatory transcriptomic signatures and likely worse cognitive impairment.

Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences Anatomy Histology and Movement Sciences Section School of Medicine University of Catania 95125 Catania Italy

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine Unit of Infectious Diseases University of Messina 98124 Messina Italy

International Clinical Research Center St Anne's University Hospital Brno Czech Republic; Department of Translational Stem Cell Biology Research Institute of the Medical University of Varna Varna Bulgaria; Liverpool Center for Cardiovascular Science Liverpool Johns Moore University and University of Liverpool Liverpool UK

Neurologic Unit AOU Policlinico San Marco Department of Medical Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies GF Ingrassia University of Catania Via Santa Sofia n 78 95100 Catania Sicily Italy

University of California San Diego Department of Psychiatry Health Science San Diego La Jolla CA USA

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