Center for Physiology and Pharmacology (Institute of Pharmacology)
Position: Associate Professor
ORCID: 0000-0003-3637-260X
walter.sandtner@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Biophysics; Electrophysiology; Pharmacology
Research interests
My research is focused on solute carriers and on understanding their function. In addition, I am interested in pharmacological mechanisms and in understanding how drugs that act on solute carriers affect their function
Selected publications
- Hellsberg, E. et al. (2024) ‘Identification of the potassium-binding site in serotonin transporter’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(18). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2319384121.
- Bhat, S. et al. (2023) ‘A mechanism of uncompetitive inhibition of the serotonin transporter’, eLife, 12. Available at: https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.82641.
- Bhat, S. et al. (2021) ‘Handling of intracellular K+ determines voltage dependence of plasmalemmal monoamine transporter function’, eLife, 10. Available at: https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.67996.
- Burtscher, V. et al. (2018) ‘A label-free approach to detect ligand binding to cell surface proteins in real time’, eLife, 7. Available at: https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.34944.
- Dual Action of Zn2+ on the Transport Cycle of the Dopamine Transporter.