Microbe enriched dual RNA sequencing of Mycobacterium bovis BCG infecting macrophage-like THP-1 cells

We infected the human macrophage-like cell line THP-1 with the attenuated M. tuberculosis surrogate M. bovis Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (M. bovis BCG). We employed microbial enrichment combined with specific ribosomal RNA depletion to simultaneously analyze the transcriptional responses of host and pathogen during infection by dual RNA sequencing.