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This allows bacteria to respond quickly to changing environmental conditions, such as stress or adaptation to host organisms. Despite the identification of a large number of sRNAs in mycobacteria, none of the most common RNA chaperones have been found in their genomes. We determined the crystal structure of the cold shock protein CspB from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It forms a dimer due to its elongated C-terminal region, which is a hairpin composed of two \u03b1-helices. It was also demonstrated that CspB from M. tuberculosis exhibits high affinity for MTS0997 sRNA and MTS1338 sRNA from the same organism, which is consistent with classical RNA chaperons such as Hfq and ProQ. 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