Loss of RNase J leads to multi-drug tolerance and accumulation of highly structured mRNA fragments in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

• Maria Carla Martini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Carla Martini, Nathan D. Hicks

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Institute of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology—CONICET, National University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Nathan D. Hicks ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Carla Martini, Nathan D. Hicks

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Junpei Xiao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Maria Natalia Alonso,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Thibault Barbier,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jaimie Sixsmith,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sarah M. Fortune ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sfortune@hsph.harvard.edu (SMF); sshell@wpi.edu (SSS)

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Scarlet S. Shell

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sfortune@hsph.harvard.edu (SMF); sshell@wpi.edu (SSS)

  Affiliations Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1136-1728

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