The invention belongs to the technical field of
microbial genetic engineering, and particularly relates to an alpha-2, 6-
sialyltransferase mutant and application thereof. The a-2, 6-
sialyltransferase mutants M133L, E140D, D228H, N289D and G322Q are obtained by carrying out site-specific
mutagenesis on five amino acids in an a-2, 6-
sialyltransferase amino acid sequence coded by a
gene derived from
Photobacterium sp.JT-ISH-224, and compared with
wild type alpha-2, 6-sialyltransferase, the yield of the single-
point mutant 6 '-SL of the E140D and the yield of the single-
point mutant 6'-SL of the G322Q are increased by 87.80% and 78.01% respectively. The yield of the optimal recombinant microbial strain 6 '-SL-7 (E140D / G322Q) obtained by
mutation site combination can reach 1.471 g / L, the
bottleneck problem of low
catalytic efficiency of sialyltransferase is effectively solved, and an
enzyme element with excellent performance is provided for high-efficiency and low-cost biological manufacturing of 6'-SL.