Role in metabolism
Reduced sulfate availability due to impaired activity of ARSB has been linked to increased aerobic glycolysis, as shown by an increase in NADH and NADPH, reduced oxygen consumption, increased extracellular acidification and serum lactate, and a decline in mitochondrial membrane potential in ARSB-silenced cells and ARSB-null mouse tissues. Extra-lysosomal localization
Although primarily a lysosomal enzyme, ARSB was also found to localize at the cell membrane of hepatocytes, sinusoidal endothelial cells, and Kupffer cells in the liver, as well as in the apical membranes of normal and malignant colonic and prostatic epithelial cells, by immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence studies. Membrane immunostaining in the colon and prostate was lower in malignant than in normal tissue and also was lower in higher grade malignancies. ARSB activity assay in the membrane and cytosol fractions of cultured bronchial epithelial cells showed that the activity was several-fold greater in the membrane fraction. See also
Aryl
Sulfatase

References
Further reading
Brunelli MJ, Atallah ÁN, da Silva EM (September 2021). "Enzyme replacement therapy with galsulfase for mucopolysaccharidosis type VI". Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 (9): CD009806. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD009806.pub3. PMC 8447860. PMID 34533215. "Galsulfase (Naglazyme)". Common Drug Review. Ottawa (ON): Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH). November 2016. PMID 28121110. Ferreira CR, Gahl WA (May 2017). "Lysosomal storage diseases". Transl Sci Rare Dis. 2 (1–2): 1–71. doi:10.3233/TRD-160005. PMC 5685203. PMID 29152458. External links
Medical Dictionary, Arylsulfatase B function. Protein Data Base (PDB), Arylsulfatase structure. Genetics Home Reference, Arylsulfatase B function. Overview of all the structural information available in the PDB for UniProt: P15848 (Arylsulfatase B) at the PDBe-KB. "Galsulfase".
The CO2 absorbent Baralyme, when dried, is most culpable for the production of carbon monoxide from desflurane degradation, although it is also seen with soda lime absorbent as well. Dry conditions in the carbon dioxide absorbent are conducive to this phenomenon, such as those resulting from high fresh gas flows. Pharmacology
As of 2005 the exact mechanism of the action of general anaesthetics has not been delineated. Desflurane is known to act as a positive allosteric modulator of the GABAA and glycine receptors, and as a negative allosteric modulator of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, as well as affecting other ligand-gated ion channels. Stereochemistry
Desflurane medications are a racemate of two enantiomers. Physical properties
Global-warming potential
Desflurane is a greenhouse gas. The twenty-year global-warming potential, GWP(20), for desflurane is 3714, meaning that one tonne of desflurane emitted is equivalent to 3714 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, much higher than sevoflurane or isoflurane. In addition to global warming potentials, drug potency and fresh gas flow rates must be considered for meaningful comparisons between anesthetic gases. When a steady state hourly amount of anesthetic necessary for 1 minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) at 2 liters per minute (LPM) for Sevoflurane, and 1 LPM for Desflurane and Isoflurane is weighted by the GWP, the clinically relevant quantities of each anesthetic can then be compared. On a per-MAC-hour basis, the total life cycle GHG impact of desflurane is more than 20 times higher than Isoflurane and Sevoflurane (1 minimal alveolar concentration-hour).