Table 1 Outcome of droplet-based microfluidic screening. After FACS sorting of the positive droplets and de-emulsification, cells were plated on solid agar to recover the sorted clones. For each screening condition, the activity toward resorufin-β-GalNAc of 372 of the 22,200 clones recovered on solid plates was quantified at 37 °C in 50 mM Tris/HCl, pH 8 or 9, to select those with at least twice the activity of the E. coli host used as negative control. Then, the clonal redundancy resulting from the bulk de-emulsification of the hit droplets was quantified by sequencing the metagenomic insert extremities for each positive clone, in order to determine the yield of different positive clones isolated from the initial metagenomic library of 20,000 clones

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