RNA-seq of Mycobacterium smegmatis MC2-155 with or without inducible overexpression of Mtb RpfB UTR with Atc

RpfB is one of five resuscitation promoting factors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We previously published data indicating the 5' UTR of the gene contains a regulatory riboswitch with an unknown (at the time) ligand. We overexpressed the switch in Mycobacterium smegmatis (which does not contain the rpfB gene), reasoning that overexpression of the switch would s sequester the unknown ligand, giving rise to a phenotype that would help us identify it.