Dr. Sidney Becker

Max Planck Research Group Leader

The principles of molecular Evolution

Publications

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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