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Biological systems are able to create very complex molecules
using a cascade of enzymatic reactions. Those molecules have
very important industrial applications, as we can use them to
prepare drugs, dyes, aromas, materials etc. The advantage of
enzymatic reactions is that they are very efficient, usually
leading to high metabolite yields, occur under mild reaction
conditions and they can be stereoselective. Beyond reactions
normally occurring in nature cells can, in principle, be used to
foster the assembly of metabolic pipelines using enzymes or
their mutants from different organisms to create new chemical
compounds normally not found in nature. Efficiency of such
enzymatic reactions can be increased by new approaches in
synthetic biology, such as scaffolding, which mimics properties
of some natural enzymatic complexes to c