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Harald H. Sitte is affiliated with the Medical University of Vienna in Austria and has contributed extensively to research spanning materials science and neuroscience. The primary fields of study in their body of work include Materials Science, with 73 publications, and Neuroscience, with 72 publications. Their research delves into subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Toxicology, and Oncology.

The main topics addressed by Harald H. Sitte cover a range of scientific inquiries, including:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
  • Ion channel regulation and function

Harald H. Sitte has published research in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Harald H. Sitte include:

  • "Allosteric Modulation of Neurotransmitter Transporters as a Therapeutic Strategy," 2020, published in Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
  • "Structural basis of organic cation transporter-3 inhibition," 2022, published in Nature Communications
  • "A critical examination of the main premises of Traditional Chinese Medicine," 2020, published in Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
  • "SLC6 transporter oligomerization," 2020, published in Journal of Neurochemistry
  • "Dopamine transporter trafficking and Rit2 GTPase: Mechanism of action and in vivo impact," 2020, published in Journal of Biological Chemistry

Harald H. Sitte collaborates frequently with several researchers in the field. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Gert Lübec
  • Christian Pifl
  • Marija Ilić
  • Jana Lubec
  • Predrag Kalaba

The diversity of Harald H. Sitte's research integrates aspects of crystallography, neuropharmacology, molecular biology, and toxicology, as seen in the spread of topics and subfields. Their contributions to understanding neurotransmitter systems, transporter function, and receptor mechanisms are supported by a significant publication record in specialized journals and databases.

Best Publications

  • Powerful cocaine-like actions of 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), a principal constituent of psychoactive 'bath salts' products.

    Michael H Baumann;John S Partilla;Kurt R Lehner;Eric B Thorndike

  • Calmodulin Kinase II Interacts with the Dopamine Transporter C Terminus to Regulate Amphetamine-Induced Reverse Transport

    Jacob U. Fog;Habibeh Khoshbouei;Marion Holy;William A. Owens

  • Amphetamines, new psychoactive drugs and the monoamine transporter cycle

    Harald H. Sitte;Michael Freissmuth

  • Oligomerization of the Human Serotonin Transporter and of the Rat GABA Transporter 1 Visualized by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Microscopy in Living Cells

    Johannes A. Schmid;Petra Scholze;Oliver Kudlacek;Michael Freissmuth

  • Carrier-Mediated Release, Transport Rates, and Charge Transfer Induced by Amphetamine, Tyramine, and Dopamine in Mammalian Cells Transfected with the Human Dopamine Transporter

    H. H. Sitte;S. Huck;H. Reither;S. Boehm

  • Globus pallidus dopamine and Parkinson motor subtypes Clinical and brain biochemical correlation

    A. H. Rajput;H. H. Sitte;A. Rajput;M. E. Fenton

  • Missense dopamine transporter mutations associate with adult parkinsonism and ADHD

    Freja H. Hansen;Tina Skjørringe;Saiqa Yasmeen;Natascha V. Arends

  • ANOMALOUS DOPAMINE RELEASE ASSOCIATED WITH A HUMAN DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER CODING VARIANT

    Michelle S. Mazei-Robison;Erica Bowton;Marion Holy;Martin Schmudermaier

  • Actovegin®: a biological drug for more than 5 decades

    Florian Buchmayer;Johannes Pleiner;Martin W. Elmlinger;Gereon Lauer

  • The N Terminus of Monoamine Transporters Is a Lever Required for the Action of Amphetamines

    Sonja Sucic;Stefan Dallinger;Barbara Zdrazil;Rene Weissensteiner

  • Physical and functional interaction between the dopamine transporter and the synaptic vesicle protein synaptogyrin-3.

    Loreto A. Egaña;Rolando A. Cuevas;Tracy B. Baust;Leonardo A. Parra

  • Relationship between Conformational Changes in the Dopamine Transporter and Cocaine-Like Subjective Effects of Uptake Inhibitors

    Claus J. Loland;Rajeev I. Desai;Mu Fa Zou;Jianjing Cao

  • Shock wave treatment enhances cell proliferation and improves wound healing by ATP release-coupled extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) activation.

    Anna M. Weihs;Christiane Fuchs;Andreas H. Teuschl;Joachim Hartinger

  • Sodium-dependent neurotransmitter transporters: oligomerization as a determinant of transporter function and trafficking.

    Harald H. Sitte;Hesso Farhan;Jonathan A. Javitch

  • Unifying concept of serotonin transporter-associated currents.

    Klaus Schicker;Zeljko Uzelac;Joan Gesmonde;Simon Bulling

  • Mutations within an intramembrane leucine heptad repeat disrupt oligomer formation of the rat GABA transporter 1.

    Petra Scholze;Michael Freissmuth;Harald H. Sitte

  • The mechanistic basis for noncompetitive ibogaine inhibition of serotonin and dopamine transporters.

    Simon Bulling;Klaus Schicker;Yuan-Wei Zhang;Thomas Steinkellner

  • Serotonin-transporter mediated efflux: a pharmacological analysis of amphetamines and non-amphetamines.

    Birgit Hilber;Petra Scholze;Mario M. Dorostkar;Walter Sandtner

  • The ugly side of amphetamines: short- and long-term toxicity of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, 'Ecstasy'), methamphetamine and D-amphetamine.

    Thomas Steinkellner;Michael Freissmuth;Harald H. Sitte;Therese Montgomery

  • Identification of an additional interaction domain in transmembrane domains 11 and 12 that supports oligomer formation in the human serotonin transporter

    Herwig Just;Harald H. Sitte;Johannes A. Schmid;Michael Freissmuth

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Freissmuth
Michael Freissmuth Medical University of Vienna
Ulrik Gether
Ulrik Gether University of Copenhagen
Gert Lubec
Gert Lubec Paracelsus Medical University
Stefan Boehm
Stefan Boehm Medical University of Vienna
Christian Pifl
Christian Pifl Medical University of Vienna
Siegfried Kasper
Siegfried Kasper Medical University of Vienna
Michael H. Baumann
Michael H. Baumann National Institute on Drug Abuse
Aurelio Galli
Aurelio Galli University of Alabama at Birmingham
Nicole Praschak-Rieder
Nicole Praschak-Rieder Medical University of Vienna
Amy Hauck Newman
Amy Hauck Newman National Institutes of Health

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