For the determination of BACE1, cell lysates were prepared by lysing cells in 150 mM NaCl, 50 mM Tris/HCl pH 7.4, 2 mM EDTA, 0.1% NP-40, 0.1% Triton-X 100. For the determination of total secreted Aβ level and sAPPβ conditioned media were used.
The following antibodies were used for WB analysis: W02 antibody (5 μg/mL; Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA), anti-sAPPβ: Mbs492139 (1:250; MyBioSource, San Diego, CA, USA), BACE1: ab2077 (1:1000; abcam, Cambridge, UK), anti-actin ab1801 (1:1000; abcam), anti-rabbit IgG HRP Conjugate W401B (1:5000; Promega, Mannheim, Germany) and anti-mouse P0260 (Dako, Hamburg, Germany).
Aβ levels were detected by performing immunoprecipitation of conditioned media before WB analysis. Therefore, 20 μL protein G-Sepharose and W02 antibody (5 μg/mL) were used.
Enhanced chemiluminescense (ECL)-method (Perkin Elmer, Rodgau-Jügesheim, Germany) was used to detect proteins. Densitometrically quantification was performed by using Image Gauge V3.45 software (Fujifilm, Düsseldorf, Germany).