The invention relates to
bacillus subtilis with reduced
spontaneous mutation rate and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of
gene engineering. According to the invention, the
bacillus subtilis with reduced
spontaneous mutation rate is constructed by knocking out genes
yolk D, yozK and yozL for coding potential error-prone
DNA polymerase in a
bacillus subtilis genome under the condition that the
specific growth rate of the strain is not influenced, and the bacillus subtilis can be applied to improving the expression stability of free or integrated expression exogenous genes. The strain is used as a
chassis strain, and an N-acetylneuraminic acid synthesis pathway is constructed in an integrated expression manner, so that N-acetylneuraminic acid can still be efficiently produced after 59 generations of passage. The strain is used as a
chassis strain to construct plasmids for expressing
fluorescence reporter genes, and the correct replication of genes on the plasmids can be ensured to exceed 47 generations under the condition that the plasmids are not lost. The bacillus subtilis provided by the invention provides an efficient universal tool for improving
genetic stability, and can be applied to construction of
cell factories with stable expression.