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The hygromycin B-resistant transformants are screened for XylE expression by spraying colonies with catechol.
One reporter gene, the aph gene which confers resistance to kanamycin, allows for selection of active promoters and a second reporter gene, the xylE gene which encodes catechol 2,3 dioxygenase, allows for screening for loss of promoter activity.
About 20,000 colonies were sprayed with catechol, and a range of color intensity from white to bright yellow was observed.
Thus, aromatic hydroxylation of such compounds at the ortho-position would form a catechol ring (Table 3, #12) and produce metabolites that are structural analogues to dopamine.
The following day, the plates were sprayed with 0.5 M catechol (Sigma) in 50 mM potassium phosphate (pH 7.5) to distinguish the xylE -expressing colonies (yellow) from the recombinant colonies (white).