Peter B. Becker

18.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
191 papers, 14.7k citations indexed

About

Peter B. Becker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter B. Becker has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 14.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 179 papers in Molecular Biology, 40 papers in Plant Science and 32 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Peter B. Becker's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (134 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (43 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (35 papers). Peter B. Becker is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (134 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (43 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (35 papers). Peter B. Becker collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Peter B. Becker's co-authors include Asifa Akhtar, Anton Eberharter, Gernot Längst, Tobias Straub, Carl Wu, Wolfram Hörz, Thiemo Blank, Patrick Varga‐Weisz, Raphael Sandaltzopoulos and Davide Corona and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter B. Becker

184 papers receiving 14.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Self-organization of microtubules into bipolar spindles around artificial chromosomes in Xenopus egg extracts

1996 796 citations Thiemo Blank, Raphael Sandaltzopoulos et al. Nature profile →
Histone acetylation: a switch between repressive and permissive chromatin

2002 721 citations Peter B. Becker et al. EMBO Reports profile →
ATP-Dependent Nucleosome Remodeling

2002 603 citations Peter B. Becker et al. profile →
ATP-dependent nucleosome disruption at a heat-shock promoter mediated by binding of GAGA transcription factor

1994 576 citations Peter B. Becker et al. Nature profile →
The histone H4 acetyltransferase MOF uses a C ₂ HC zinc finger for substrate recognition

2001 545 citations Peter B. Becker et al. EMBO Reports profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter B. Becker Germany	64	13.0k	2.4k	2.4k	1.1k	757	191	14.7k
Axel Imhof Germany	59	11.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	671 0.6×	947 1.3×	224	13.5k
Jacques Côté Canada	68	14.4k 1.1×	1.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	616 0.5×	654 0.9×	163	16.3k
Stephen P. Bell United States	56	14.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	2.8k 1.2×	2.2k 1.9×	423 0.6×	110	16.0k
Katsuhiko Shirahige Japan	70	14.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	2.8k 2.4×	412 0.5×	219	15.7k
Wolfgang Fischle Germany	51	11.1k 0.9×	982 0.4×	1.3k 0.5×	618 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	92	12.8k
Jasper Rine United States	68	14.1k 1.1×	2.5k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	2.2k 1.9×	326 0.4×	203	16.8k
Ingrid Grummt Germany	80	15.2k 1.2×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 0.7×	829 0.7×	614 0.8×	175	17.3k
Michael Grunstein United States	39	11.3k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	519 0.5×	551 0.7×	44	13.2k
James A. Wohlschlegel United States	66	12.0k 0.9×	3.0k 1.2×	981 0.4×	1.5k 1.3×	815 1.1×	236	16.3k
James Davie Canada	59	13.8k 1.1×	835 0.3×	2.7k 1.1×	759 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	252	16.6k

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Apostolou, Zivkos, et al.. (2025). The Tip60 acetylome is a hallmark of the proliferative state in Drosophila. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(20).

Pathirana, Dilan, et al.. (2024). Processivity and specificity of histone acetylation by the male-specific lethal complex. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(9). 4889–4905. 2 indexed citations

Becker, Peter B., et al.. (2023). Physical interaction between MSL2 and CLAMP assures direct cooperativity and prevents competition at composite binding sites. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(17). 9039–9054. 5 indexed citations

Müller, Veronika, et al.. (2022). LncRNA RUS shapes the gene expression program towards neurogenesis. Life Science Alliance. 5(10). e202201504–e202201504. 8 indexed citations

Maksimenko, Oksana, et al.. (2018). Factor cooperation for chromosome discrimination in Drosophila. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(4). 1706–1724. 27 indexed citations

Becker, Peter B., et al.. (2016). Splice variants of the SWR1-type nucleosome remodeling factor Domino have distinct functions during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis. Development. 143(17). 3154–3167. 15 indexed citations

Villa, Raffaella, Tamás Schauer, Pawel Smialowski, Tobias Straub, & Peter B. Becker. (2016). PionX sites mark the X chromosome for dosage compensation. Nature. 537(7619). 244–248. 54 indexed citations

Mueller‐Planitz, Felix, et al.. (2012). The ATPase domain of ISWI is an autonomous nucleosome remodeling machine. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 20(1). 82–89. 69 indexed citations

Brehm, Alexander, et al.. (2004). The many colours of chromodomains. BioEssays. 26(2). 133–140. 136 indexed citations

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Gilfillan, Gregor D., Ina K. Dahlsveen, & Peter B. Becker. (2004). Lifting a chromosome: dosage compensation in Drosophila melanogaster. FEBS Letters. 567(1). 8–14. 46 indexed citations

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Becker, Peter B.. (2004). The Chromatin Accessibility Complex: Chromatin Dynamics through Nucleosome Sliding. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 69(0). 281–288. 1 indexed citations

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Murawsky, Christopher M., Alexander Brehm, Paul Badenhorst, et al.. (2001). Tramtrack69 interacts with the dMi‐2 subunit of the Drosophila NuRD chromatin remodelling complex. EMBO Reports. 2(12). 1089–1094. 56 indexed citations

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Sandaltzopoulos, Raphael & Peter B. Becker. (1998). Heat Shock Factor Increases the Reinitiation Rate from Potentiated Chromatin Templates. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 18(1). 361–367. 59 indexed citations

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Gaillard, Pierre-Henri L., Jonathan G. Moggs, Jean‐Pierre Quivy, et al.. (1997). Initiation and bidirectional propagation of chromatin assembly from a target site for nucleotide excision repair. The EMBO Journal. 16(21). 6613–6613. 10 indexed citations

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Blank, Thiemo & Peter B. Becker. (1995). Electrostatic Mechanism of Nucleosome Spacing. Journal of Molecular Biology. 252(3). 305–313. 99 indexed citations

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Sandaltzopoulos, Raphael, Wilhelm Ansorge, Peter B. Becker, & Hartmut Voss. (1994). Nonradioactive, solid-phase DNase I footprints analyzed on an A.L.F. DNA Sequencer.. PubMed. 17(3). 474, 476, 478–474, 476, 478. 6 indexed citations

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Weih, Falk, Doris Nitsch, Andreas Reich, Günther Schütz, & Peter B. Becker. (1991). Analysis of CpG methylation and genomic footprinting at the tyrosine aminotransferase gene. The EMBO Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Clos, Joachim, et al.. (1990). Molecular cloning and expression of a hexameric Heat Shock Factor subject to nagtive regulation. Cell. 1 indexed citations

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Becker, Peter B., Siegfried Ruppert, & Günther Schütz. (1987). Genomic footprinting reveals cell type-specific DNA binding of ubiquitous factors. Cell. 51(3). 435–443. 304 indexed citations

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Becker, Peter B., Siegfried Ruppert, & Günther Schütz. (1987). Genomic footprinting reveals cell-type-specific binding of ubiquitous transcription factors. Cell. 2 indexed citations

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