The invention discloses a recombinant bacterium and application of the recombinant bacterium to preparation of
rebaudioside M2 by catalyzing
rebaudioside A. The recombinant bacterium contains a tomato-based
glycosyltransferase UGTSL2
gene and a potato-based
sucrose synthase StSUS1
gene at the same time; the tomato-based
glycosyltransferase UGTSL2
gene is cloned between
NdeI and
XhoI sites of pRSFDuet-1 and is constructed to obtain a recombinant
plasmid pRSFDuet-SL2; then the potato-based
sucrose synthase StSUS1 gene is cloned between NcoI and
EcoRI sites of the pRSFDuet-SL2 and is constructed to obtain a recombinant
plasmid pRSFDuet-SL2-SUS1; the recombinant
plasmid pRSFDuet-SL2-SUS1 is transferred into a host
cell to obtain the recombinant bacterium. After the recombinant bacterium is subjected to induced expression, crude
enzyme liquid is taken and is added into a reaction mixture to catalyze the
rebaudioside A to generate the
rebaudioside M2; in a reaction process, the crude
enzyme liquid obtained by crushing the recombinant bacterium is utilized and separation and purification of an
enzyme are avoided; lyophilized
powder is also not needed and substrates including
rebaudioside D and UDP or UDP-glucose and any
cell penetration agent or other chemical reagents do not need to be added, so that the environmental friendliness is better. The yield of the
rebaudioside M2 reaches 11.09g / L.