The invention discloses a
biosynthesis method of alpha-
lipoic acid, an
engineering strain and a preparation method of the
engineering strain. The construction of the
engineering strain comprises the following steps: transforming lipocaprylamide
enzyme Lpa of
enterococcus faecalis, constructing the lipocaprylamide
enzyme Lpa to an
arabinose promoter or a Cold temperature-sensitive
promoter, and then replacing the lipocaprylamide
enzyme Lpa to a LacZ
gene and an lpxM
gene of
escherichia coli through RED recombination; or the genes of LipD, lplA, lipA and lpA which are subjected to
gene code modification are expressed in the
saccharomyces cerevisiae through a pESC vector. The engineering strain is cultured to biologically synthesize alpha-
lipoic acid, so that the
fermentation cost is further reduced, cyclic synthesis is realized, and the yield is greatly increased.