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Research: Connection found between body's gene repair system and innate immunity

A study published in the December8, 2000 issue of the journal Cell reports the discovery that an enzyme normally involved in the body's genetic repair system is also involved in the body's innate immunity, its first response against outside invaders such as viruses, bacteria and toxins. The finding that the enzyme, DNA-PK provides a link between the body's genetic or DNA repair mechanism and its innate immunity confirms that the two systems are activated when the body encounters invading bacteria, viruses or toxins. The body's innate immune system, when functioning correctly, identifies invaders by their structure and very quickly, within minutes, produces a large amount of natural killer cells to deal with the invader. The adaptative immune system will memorize this contact with an invader and over a period of days will gear up its attack with Band T-cells. The adaptative immune system is also responsible for attacking the invader again if the body encounters it in the future.

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