Heinrich Betz

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
• 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1989 - Member of Academia Europaea
• Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
• Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
• Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Best Publications

• The strychnine-binding subunit of the glycine receptor shows homology with nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

  Gabriele Grenningloh;Axel Rienitz;Bertram Schmitt;Christoph Methfessel;Christoph Methfessel

  930
  Citations

• Widespread expression of glycine receptor subunit mRNAs in the adult and developing rat brain.

  Maria Luisa Malosio;Béatrice Marquèze-Pouey;Jochen Kuhse;Heinrich Betz

  763
  Citations

• GlyR alpha3: an essential target for spinal PGE2-mediated inflammatory pain sensitization.

  Robert J. Harvey;Ulrike B. Depner;Heinz Wässle;Seifollah Ahmadi

  732
  Citations

• Evidence for a Tetrameric Structure of Recombinant NMDA Receptors

  Bodo Laube;Jochen Kuhse;Heinrich Betz

  695
  Citations

• Molecular determinants of agonist discrimination by NMDA receptor subunits: analysis of the glutamate binding site on the NR2B subunit.

  Bodo Laube;Hirokazu Hirai;Mike Sturgess;Heinrich Betz

  669
  Citations

• Mutational analysis of the glycine-binding site of the NMDA receptor: Structural similarity with bacterial amino acid-binding proteins

  Alexander Kuryatov;Bodo Laube;Heinrich Betz;Jochen Kuhse

  560
  Citations

• Ligand-gated ion channels in the brain: The amino acid receptor superfamily

  Heinrich Betz

  559
  Citations

• Neuroligin 2 drives postsynaptic assembly at perisomatic inhibitory synapses through gephyrin and collybistin

  Alexandros Poulopoulos;Gayane Aramuni;Guido Meyer;Tolga Soykan

  552
  Citations

• Loss of Postsynaptic GABAA Receptor Clustering in Gephyrin-Deficient Mice

  Matthias Kneussel;Johann Helmut Brandstätter;Bodo Laube;Sabine Stahl

  536
  Citations

• Murine semaphorin D/collapsin is a member of a diverse gene family and creates domains inhibitory for axonal extension

  Andreas W Püschel;Ralf H Adams;Heinrich Betz

  519
  Citations

• Identification of a gephyrin binding motif on the glycine receptor β subunit

  Guido Meyer;Joachim Kirsch;Heinrich Betz;Dieter Langosch

  519
  Citations

• Conserved quaternary structure of ligand-gated ion channels: the postsynaptic glycine receptor is a pentamer.

  Dieter Langosch;Leo Thomas;Heinrich Betz

  510
  Citations

• Gephyrin antisense oligonucleotides prevent glycine receptor clustering in spinal neurons

  J. Kirsch;I. Wolters;A. Triller;H. Betz

  508
  Citations

• The β Subunit Determines the Ligand Binding Properties of Synaptic Glycine Receptors

  Joanna Grudzinska;Rudolf Schemm;Svenja Haeger;Annette Nicke

  494
  Citations

• Purification by affinity chromatography of the glycine receptor of rat spinal cord.

  Friedhelm Pfeiffer;David Graham;Heinrich Betz

  492
  Citations

• The atypical M2 segment of the beta subunit confers picrotoxinin resistance to inhibitory glycine receptor channels.

  I. Pribilla;T. Takagi;D. Langosch;J. Bormann

  429
  Citations

• Identification of synaptophysin as a hexameric channel protein of the synaptic vesicle membrane.

  Leo Thomas;Klaus Hartung;Dieter Langosch;Hubert Rehm

  427
  Citations

• Distribution of glycine receptors at central synapses: an immunoelectron microscopy study.

  A Triller;F Cluzeaud;F Pfeiffer;H Betz

  414
  Citations

• Glycine receptor heterogeneity in rat spinal cord during postnatal development

  C M Becker;W Hoch;H Betz

  414
  Citations

• Molecular characterization of synaptophysin, a major calcium-binding protein of the synaptic vesicle membrane.

  H. Rehm;B. Wiedenmann;H. Betz

  395
  Citations