Abstract
The present work aims to produce a composition of 5’-ribonucleotides
using spent brewer’s yeast as cheap source of RNA and barley malt
rootlets as cheap source of 5’-phosphodiesterase (5’-PDE). This strategy
is very promising because both are residues of the brewing process and
are closely linked in a cycle that until now is not yet commercially
exploited due to lack of studies. The results of the present work showed
that extraction of 5’-PDE was mainly influenced by the fineness of the
rootlets and amount of extraction solvent (water). The main molecules
formed during RNA hydrolysis were 5’-ribonucleotides, which represented
85.86% of the total hydrolyzed molecules. Finally, the results of the
approach here proposed can generate a new perspective for the brewing
industry in relation to the management of its wastes in order to
generate from them products of high added value and with a wide range of
applications.