Hannah LeBlanc

The paper clarifies bacterial mRNA decay kinetics by resolving full-length mRNAs, revealing first-order decay and 5'-dependent decay mechanisms.

The paper identifies new Rae1 cleavage sites and shows that ribosome stalling and collisions trigger mRNA decay in Bacillus subtilis, with sequence context influencing cleavage efficiency.

This study shows RNase J2 in B. subtilis acts as a specificity factor for RNase J1, enhancing its degradation of mRNAs and influencing biofilm formation and swarming.

This paper introduces improved RNA constructs for the bacterial three-hybrid assay to enhance detection of RNA-protein interactions by using short GC clamps and non-terminating RNA sequences.

The paper identifies endonucleolytic cleavage sites in Bacillus subtilis using transcriptome-wide mapping and deep mutational scanning, revealing distinct sequence determinants for different endoribonucleases.