Dr. Sidney Becker
Max Planck Research Group Leader
The principles of molecular Evolution
Publications
2026
Engelhard L, Cakil ZV, Zambrano-Mila MS, Eppmann S, Gonzalez T, Linser R, Janning P, Becker S, Summerer D (2026). Mammalian Proteome Profiling Reveals Readers and Antireaders of Strand-Symmetric and -Asymmetric 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine-Modifications in DNA. Adv. Sci (Weinh)
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2025
Schmidl, D., Becker, S.M., Edgerton, J.M. et al. An unnatural base pair for the detection of epigenetic cytosine modifications in DNA. Nat. Chem. 17, 1732–1741 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-025-01925-6
Eric Ogel, Sidney Becker , ChemBioChem 2025, 26, e202500650. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202500650
2024
Veronica Teresa OberGeorge Boniface GithureYuri Volpato SantosSidney BeckerGabriel Moya MunozJérôme BasquinFrank SchwedeEsben LorentzenMichael Boshart (2024) Purine nucleosides replace cAMP in allosteric regulation of PKA in trypanosomatid pathogens eLife 12:RP91040.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.91040.3
Hermon, S.J., Sennikova, A. & Becker, S. Quantitative detection of pseudouridine in RNA by mass spectrometry. Sci Rep 14, 27564 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78734-3
2023
Mortishire-Smith BJ, Becker SM, Simeone A, Melidis L, Balasubramanian S (2023). A Photoredox Reaction for the Selective Modification of 5-Carboxycytosine in DNA. J Am Chem Soc
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2022
Xu F, Crisp A, Schinkel T, Dubini RCA, Hübner S, Becker S, Schelter F, Rovó P, Carell T (2022). Isoxazole Nucleosides as Building Blocks for a Plausible Proto-RNA. Angew Chem Int Ed
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2020
M. Bilyard, S. Becker, S. Balasubramanian (2020), Natural, modified DNA bases, Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol., 57, 1.
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M. Preiner, S. Asche, S. Becker et al. (2020), The Future of Origin of Life Research: Bridging Decades-Old Division, Life,10, 20.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2018
S. Becker, C. Schneider, A. Crisp, T. Carell (2018), Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life, Nat. Commun., 9, 5174.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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