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A total of 25 modifications were mapped to 16S and 23S RNA in B. subtilis ribosome, however most of the genes responsible for these modification sites remain unknown. In this work, bottom-up oligonucleotide LC-MS/MS was used to detect rRNA modifications in five single gene knock-out strains: yydA, yhcT, yjbO, ylyB, yqxC. By comparing oligonucleotide modification states between the background 168 strain (annotated as WT) and the mutants: ylyB was confirmed to be a pseudouridine synthase at positions 1940, 1944, 1946 of 23S; yydA is a N3-pseudouridine methyltransferase at 1944 of 23S; and yqxC is a dual 2’O-cytidine methyltransferase at 1417 of 16S and 1949 of 23S. Deletion of yhcT or yjbO does not change rRNA modification pattern.