PCA must be extracted from the fermentation broth and then detected and quantified by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). We first extracted PCA from the fermentation broth using ethyl acetate and subjected it to reversed-phase C18 column (Agilent Technologies, 5 μm, 4.6*250 mm). Both 2-OH-PHZ and PCN are phenazine derivatives and exhibit similar material properties; the specific extraction and detection steps of these samples are described in our previous studies (Liu et al., 2016 (link); Li et al., 2020 (link)).
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