Epitranscriptional m⁶A modification of rRNA negatively impacts translation and host colonization in Staphylococcus aureus

• Kathryn E. Shields,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• David Ranava,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Yongjun Tan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Dapeng Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Program of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Mee-Ngan F. Yap

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

  * E-mail: frances.yap@northwestern.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4213-4050

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