Dr. Sidney Becker
Max Planck Research Group Leader
The principles of molecular Evolution
Publications
2020
M. Bilyard, S. Becker, S. Balasubramanian (2020), Natural, modified DNA bases, Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol., 57, 1.
doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2020.01.014
M. Preiner, S. Asche, S. Becker et al. (2020), The Future of Origin of Life Research: Bridging Decades-Old Division, Life,10, 20.
doi:10.3390/life10030020
2019
H. Okamura, A. Crisp, S. Hübner, S. Becker, P. Rovó, T. Carell (2019), Proto‐Urea‐RNA (Wöhler RNA) Containing Unusually Stable Urea Nucleosides, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, 18691.
doi:10.1002/anie.201911746
S. Becker#, J. Feldmann#, S. Wiedemann#, H. Okamura, C. Schneider, K. Iwan, A. Crisp, M. Rossa, T. Amatov, T. Carell (2019), Unified prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine and purine ribonucleotides, Science, 366, 76.
doi:10.1126/science.aax2747
H. Okamura, S. Becker, N. Tiede, S. Wiedemann, J. Feldmann, T. Carell (2019), A one-pot, water compatible synthesis of pyrimidine nucleobases under plausible prebiotic conditions, Chem. Commun., 55, 1939.
doi:10.1039/c8cc09435g
2018
S. Becker, C. Schneider, A. Crisp, T. Carell (2018), Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life, Nat. Commun., 9, 5174.
doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08340-9
C. Schneider, S. Becker, H. Okamura, A. Crisp, T. Amatov, M. Stadlmeier, T. Carell (2018), Noncanonical RNA Nucleosides as Molecular Fossils of an Early Earth — Generation by Prebiotic Methylations and Carbamoylations. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 57, 5943.
doi:10.1002/anie.201801919
S. Becker, C. Schneider, H. Okamura, A. Crisp, T. Amatov, M. Dejmek, T. Carell (2018), Wet-dry cycles enable the parallel origin of canonical and non-canonical nucleosides by continuous synthesis, Nat. Commun., 9, 163.
doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02639-1
2016
S. Becker#, I. Thoma#, A. Deutsch, T. Gehrke, P. Mayer, H. Zipse, T. Carell (2016), A high-yielding, strictly regioselective prebiotic purine nucleoside formation pathway, Science, 352, 833-836.
doi:10.1126/science.aad2808