“… 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 Staphylococcus xylosus , a Gram-positive coccus, is a microorganism that fits these requirements as it has GRAS certification (Generally Recognised As Safe), known to have proteolytic and lipolytic activity, and regularly used in the food industry especially for fermentation of meat products as well as for the production and intensification of flavour, colour stabilisation and peroxide decomposition. 27 , 28 , 29 Importantly, apart from these in vivo applications, S. xylosus and other bacteria from the same genus also secrete exoenzymes that catalyse lipid-based reactions. 22 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 A useful example of such secreted enzymes is the serine acetyltransferase (E.C.3.1.1.3), which is capable of catalysing alcoholysis, esterification, transesterification and hydrolysis, among others.…”