This application relates to the fields of
genetic engineering and
enzyme engineering, specifically to an
ornithine decarboxylase
mutant,
gene, recombinant
plasmid, recombinant strain, and its applications. The
ornithine decarboxylase
mutant is obtained by mutating the wild-type
ornithine decarboxylase with the
amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO.1, and the
mutation sites of the
ornithine decarboxylase mutant include any one or more of Y104F, A264V, Q263E, R157K, S325C, and V265A. By performing single-point or multi-site combination mutations on the wild-type
ornithine decarboxylase, a high-activity
ornithine decarboxylase mutant is obtained, thereby significantly improving the substrate conversion rate of the ornithine
decarboxylation reaction and the synthesis efficiency of butanediamine. This successfully overcomes the rate-limiting
bottleneck of the ornithine
decarboxylation reaction in the synthetic pathway from glucose to ornithine and then to butanediamine, significantly optimizing the
overall efficiency of this
metabolic pathway.