Table 5. Top 10 small RNA reads of M. tuberculosis in culture.
| ID | % of RISC-associated miRNA reads | 5′ position in genome | Sense | Length (nt) | Origin | Stem-loop structure prediction | RIP-enrichment (fold) |
| MT-A | 3.66 | 1844427 | - | 16 | ORF (as) | Noncanonical a | 7.3 |
| MT-B | 0.56 | 1844427 | - | 15 | ORF (as) | Noncanonical | 5.9 |
| MT-C | 0.24 | 2040474 | + | 17 | ORF | Noncanonical | 5.1 |
| MT-D | 0.11 | 4362305 | + | 15 | ORF (as) | Noncanonical | 0.05 |
| MT-E | 0.10 | 3309774 | - | 15 | ORF (as) | No | 7.0 |
| MT-F | 0.07 | 3552591 | + | 22 | NCR | Noncanonical | 1.6 |
| MT-G | 0.04 | 3339219 | - | 16 | ORF (as) | Noncanonical | 8.3 |
| MT-H | 0.04 | 2565982 | + | 17 | ORF | Noncanonical | 0.2 |
| MT-I | 0.01 | 3335396 | + | 18 | ORF (as) | Noncanonical | 3.9 |
| MT-J | 0.03 | 863873 | - | 16 | ORF (as) | No | 8.0 |
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The predicted stem-loop structures and origin of these small RNAs is depicted in Fig. S5.