Navas Adriana, Matzaraki Vasiliki, van Eekeren Louise E, Blaauw Marc J T, Groenendijk Albert L, Vos Wilhelm A J W, Jacobs-Cleophas Maartje, Dos Santos Jéssica C, van der Ven André J A M, Joosten Leo A B, Netea Mihai G
Department of Internal Medicine and Radboud Center of Infectious Diseases, Radboudumc, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Elizabeth-Tweesteden Ziekenhuis, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Aging Cell. 2025 May;24(5):e14468. doi: 10.1111/acel.14468. Epub 2025 Jan 15.
Due to the increased burden of non-AIDS-related comorbidities in people living with HIV (PLHIV), identifying biomarkers and mechanisms underlying premature aging and the risk of developing age-related comorbidities is a priority. Evidence suggests that the plasma proteome is an accurate source for measuring biological age and predicting age-related clinical outcomes. To investigate whether PLHIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART) exhibit a premature aging phenotype, we profiled the plasma proteome of two independent cohorts of virally suppressed PLHIV (200HIV and 2000HIV) and one cohort of people without HIV (200FG) using O-link technology. Next, we built a biological age-prediction model and correlated age advancement (the deviation of the predicted age from the chronological age) with HIV-related factors, comorbidities, and cytokines secreted by immune cells. We identified a common signature of 77 proteins associated with chronological age across all cohorts, most of which were involved in inflammatory and senescence-related processes. PLHIV showed increased age advancement compared to people without HIV. In addition, age advancement in the 2000HIV cohort was positively associated with prior hepatitis C and cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections, non-AIDS-related comorbidities, ART duration, cumulative exposure to the protease inhibitor Ritonavir, as well as higher production of monocyte-derived proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines and lower secretion of T-cell derived cytokines. Our proteome-based predictive model is a promising approach for calculating the age advancement in PLHIV. This will potentially allow for further characterization of the pathophysiological mechanisms linked to accelerated aging and enable monitoring the effectiveness of novel therapies aimed at reducing age-related diseases in PLHIV.
由于感染人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV)的人群(PLHIV)中非艾滋病相关合并症的负担增加,确定早衰和发生与年龄相关合并症风险的生物标志物及潜在机制成为当务之急。有证据表明,血浆蛋白质组是测量生物年龄和预测与年龄相关临床结局的准确来源。为了研究接受抗逆转录病毒疗法(ART)的PLHIV是否表现出早衰表型,我们使用O-link技术分析了两组独立的病毒得到抑制的PLHIV队列(200例HIV感染者和2000例HIV感染者)以及一组未感染HIV的人群(200例健康对照者)的血浆蛋白质组。接下来,我们建立了生物年龄预测模型,并将年龄进展(预测年龄与实际年龄的偏差)与HIV相关因素、合并症以及免疫细胞分泌的细胞因子进行关联分析。我们在所有队列中确定了77种与实际年龄相关的共同蛋白质特征,其中大多数参与炎症和衰老相关过程。与未感染HIV的人群相比,PLHIV的年龄进展增加。此外,2000例HIV感染者队列中的年龄进展与既往丙型肝炎和巨细胞病毒(CMV)感染、非艾滋病相关合并症、ART持续时间、蛋白酶抑制剂利托那韦的累积暴露量、单核细胞衍生的促炎细胞因子和趋化因子的较高产生以及T细胞衍生细胞因子的较低分泌呈正相关。我们基于蛋白质组的预测模型是计算PLHIV年龄进展的一种有前景的方法。这可能有助于进一步表征与加速衰老相关的病理生理机制,并能够监测旨在减少PLHIV中与年龄相关疾病的新型疗法的有效性。