Description:The goal of this project was to measure metabolite shifts in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) in response to desiccation and rehydration. We characterized the metabolome of Mtb in log phase and compared it to cells that were either dried for 24 hours or held in a solution of 200 mM sodium chloride. Following this incubation cells were rehydrated into 200 mM sodium chloride. We performed targeted metabolomics on each of these conditions using LC-MS. Significant increases in oxidized nucleotides and intermediates of de novo nucleotide biosynthesis were discovered in the desiccated samples. These metaboite accumulations reversed with rehydration.