The invention discloses a 
trehalose synthetase as well as encoding genes and application thereof. The 
trehalose synthetase is a 
protein comprising one of the following 
amino acid residue sequences: 1) an SEQ ID No. 1 
amino acid residue sequence in a sequence table; and 2) a 
protein which is derived from the SEQ ID No. 1, has 
trehalose synthetase related functions, and is obtained by replacing and / or deleting and / or adding the SEQ ID No. 1 
amino acid residue sequence in the sequence table. 
Trehalose can be obtained by using 
maltose as a substrate and performing 
catalysis with the application of the 
protein of the trehalose synthetase; besides, the catalytic reaction has the advantages that the 
catalysis time is short, the concentration of the required substrate is low, a 90mM 
maltose is used as the substrate, the 
catalysis time is 8 hours, and the conversion rate reaches 69 percent.