... industry (Lauw-ers and Scharp´e 1997; Huisman and Gray 2002; Aehle 2003; Pollard and Woodley2006). In fact, enzyme applications in organic synthesis represent now the mostpromising and challenging ... professor and permanent collaborator and, be-yond that, a dear friend, Fanny Guzm´an, a reputed scientist in the field of peptidesynthesis who is my partner, support and inspiration, and Josep ... the case of food and cosmetic applications) (Benkovic and Ballesteros 1997; Wegman et al. 2001).However, enzymes are complex molecular structures that are intrinsically labile and costly to produce,...