The invention discloses a glucose
isomerase mutant and application thereof, belonging to the technical field of
enzyme genetic engineering and
enzyme engineering. According to the invention, a high temperature glucose
isomerase gene (NCBI coding: CP000088) is obtained from total
DNA of
thermobifida fusca, and after site-
directed mutagenesis, high efficiency expression of the glucose
isomerase gene with a high conversion rate is realized, with the
plasmid pT7-7 or a vector that can express glucose isomerase as an
expression vector and E. coli BL21 (DE3) or a
bacterial strain that can express glucose isomerase as an expression host; the glucose
isomerase gene has altogether 1158
nucleotide and encodes 385 amino acids; expression
plasmid is constructed in the invention, glucose isomerase is expressed through conversion of
bacteria or
yeast, and an obtained
recombinase mutant has activity of glucose isomerase and has a conversion rate of 60% at a temperature of 70 DEG C, 7% higher than the conversion rate of a parent; optimum temperature of the recombinant glucose isomerase is 80 DEG C, an optimum pH is 10, and the
half life of the recombinant glucose isomerase at a temperature of 70 DEG C is no less than 30 h. The recombinant glucose isomerase is particularly applicable to production of F55 high-
fructose syrup in the industry of foodstuffs.