The invention relates to the field of
biochemical engineering, in particular to an
alcohol dehydrogenase mutant and application thereof. The
mutant is obtained by mutating
alcohol dehydrogenase with an
amino acid sequence encoding SEQ ID NO: 4 at one or more sites selected from 62nd, 108th, 130th, 132, 134, 182nd, 206th, 287th, 303th, 313th and 314, and the
mutation is that the
amino acid at the site is mutated into one of A, G, V, L, I, P, F, Y, W, S, T, C, M, N, Q, D, E, K, R and H. According to the
alcohol dehydrogenase mutant and the application of the
alcohol dehydrogenase mutant, the feeding amount of substrates is increased; the high conversion rate (gt; 99%) of the substrate is realized; according to the present invention, the new YqjM has the good product ee value (gt; 98%), and it is determined that the YqjM derived from the
bacillus subtilis old yellow
enzyme (belonging to
ketene reductase) has the optimal catalytic activity, such that the good industrial application performance is provided.