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Physiol. Rev. 83: 377-415, 2003; doi:10.1152/physrev.00025.2002
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Physiological Reviews, Vol. 83, No. 2, April 2003, pp. 377-415; 10.1152/physrev.00025.2002.
Copyright ©2003 by the American Physiological Society

From Genes to Integrative Physiology: Ion Channel and Transporter Biology in Caenorhabditis elegans

Kevin Strange

Departments of Anesthesiology, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Strange, Kevin From Genes to Integrative Physiology: Ion Channel and Transporter Biology in Caenorhabditis elegans. Physiol. Rev. 83: 377-415, 2003.The stunning progress in molecular biology that has occurred over the last 50 years drove a powerful reductionist approach to the study of physiology. That same progress now forms the foundation for the next revolution in physiological research. This revolution will be focused on integrative physiology, which seeks to understand multicomponent processes and the underlying pathways of information flow from an organism's "parts" to increasingly complex levels of organization. Genetically tractable and genomically defined nonmammalian model organisms such as the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans provide powerful experimental advantages for elucidating gene function and the molecular workings of complex systems. This review has two main goals. The first goal is to describe the experimental utility of C. elegans for investigating basic physiological problems. A detailed overview of C. elegans biology and the experimental tools, resources, and strategies available for its study is provided. The second goal of this review is to describe how forward and reverse genetic approaches and direct behavioral and physiological measurements in C. elegans have generated novel insights into the integrative physiology of ion channels and transporters. Where appropriate, I describe how insights from C. elegans have provided new understanding of the physiology of membrane transport processes in mammals.




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