library_construction_protocol: Standard TRI Reagent LS protocol was used for RNA extraction Samples were subjected to the RIL-seq manipulations to ligate RNAs that interact on Hfq (Melamed et al., 2018). Final libary construction was carried out based on the RNAtag-Seq methodology (Shishkin, et al., 2015), which was adapted to capture bacterial sRNAs (Melamed et al., 2018