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Published in final edited form as: Cell Rep. 2024 Feb 13;43(2):113761. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113761

KEY RESOURCES TABLE.

REAGENT or RESOURCE SOURCE IDENTIFIER

Antibodies

Mouse anti-Flag M2 Sigma-Aldrich Cat. No. F1804; RRID Ab_262044
Mouse anti-FLAG M2-agarose beads Sigma-Aldrich Cat. No. A2220; RRID:AB_10063035
Mouse anti-GAPDH Cell Signaling Technology Cat. No. 97166; RRID:AB_2756824
Mouse anti-PSEN1-NTF Bio-Legend Cat. No. 823401; RRID:AB_2564868
Mouse anti-Aβ 6E10 Bio-Legend Cat. No. 803001; RRID:AB_2564653
Rabbit anti-total Aβ Cell Signaling Technology Cat. No. 8243; RRID:AB_2797642
Rabbit anti-nicastrin Novus Biologicals Cat. No. NBP2-57365
Rabbit anti-PSEN1 Loop (EP2000Y) Abcam Cat. No. ab76083; RRID:AB_1310605
Alexa Fluor 488-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG ThermoFisher Cat. No. A32723; RRID:AB_2633275
Cy3-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG ThermoFisher Cat. No. A10520; RRID:AB_2534029

Bacterial and virus strains

E. coli BL21 DE3 New England Biolabs Cat. No. C2530H

Chemicals, peptides, and recombinant proteins

FreeStyle 293 Expression Medium ThermoFisher Cat. No. 12338018
13C glucose Cambridge Isotope Laboratories Cat. No. CLM-1396
15NH4Cl Cambridge Isotope Laboratories Cat. No. NLM-467
Pac1 restriction enzyme New England Biolabs Cat. No. R0547S
Swa1 restriction enzyme New England Biolabs Cat. No. R0604S
BamH1 restriction enzyme New England Biolabs Cat. No. R01365
NgoM4 restriction enzyme New England Biolabs Cat. No. R05645
DOPC (1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphocholine) Avanti Polar Lipids Cat. No. 850375
DOPE (1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine) Avanti Polar Lipids Cat. No. 850725
CHAPSO (3-[(3-cholamidopropyl) dimethylammonio]-2-hydroxy-1-propanesulfonate) MP Biomedicals Cat. No. 190320
Digitonin Goldbio Cat. No. D-180-5
Transmembrane substrate mimetic inhibitor SB-250 In-house Ref. 18, cmpd 28
Peptides VIT, ITL, VIV, TVI, IAT and VVIAA New England Peptide Custom synthesized

Critical commercial assays

QuikChange Lightning Multi-Site Directed Mutagenesis kit Agilent Cat. No. 210513
Amyloid β-peptide 1-40 ELISA kit Invitrogen Cat. No. KHB3481
Amyloid β-peptide 1-40 ELISA kit Invitrogen Cat. No. KHB3441

Deposited data

CryoEM map for the structure of γ-secretase bound to probe SB-250 This study EMDB: EMD-36948
Atomic model for the structure of γ-secretase bound to probe SB-250 This study PDB: 8K8E

Experimental models: Cell lines

FreeStyle HEK293F cells ThermoFisher Cat. No. R79007
HEK293 cells ATCC Cat. No. CRL-1573
HEK293 cells stably expressing WT APP C99 This study N/A
HEK293 cells stably expressing I45F APP C99 This study N/A
HEK293 cells stably expressing V44F/I45F APP C99 This study N/A
HEK293 cells with PSEN1/2 double knockout by CRISPR Lei Liu, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Liu et al.30

Experimental models: Organisms/strains

C. elegans parental juIs1 strain [unc-25p::snb-1::GFP + lin-15(+)] Hallam et al51
C. elegans juIs1 + wt C99APP + wt PS-1 (lhEx661) This study N/A
C. elegans juIs1 + I45F C99APP + wt PS-1 (lhEx655) This study N/A
C. elegans juIsl + I45F C99APP (lhEx648) This study N/A
C. elegans juIs1 + V44F I45F C99APP + wt PS-1 (lhEx650) This study N/A
C. elegans juIs1 + V44F I45F C99APP (lhEx652) This study N/A
C. elegans juIs1 + V50F M51F C99APP + wt PS-1 (lhEx663) This study N/A
C. elegans juIs1 + wt C99APP + L166P PS-1 (lhEx657) This study N/A
C. elegans juIs1 + L166P PS-1 (lhEx659) This study N/A

Oligonucleotides

DNA primers for P117L PSEN1 mutagenesis: ggcagctaatctataccctattcacagaagataccgagactg Invitrogen Custom synthesized
DNA primers for I143T PSEN1 mutagenesis: gccatcatgatcagtgtcactgttgtcatgactatcctcctg Invitrogen Custom synthesized
DNA primers for L166P PSEN1 mutagenesis: aaggtcatccatgcctggcctattatatcatctctattgctg Invitrogen Custom synthesized
DNA primers for G384A PSEN1 mutagenesis: ggagtaaaacttggattggcagatttcattttctacagtg Invitrogen Custom synthesized
DNA primers for L435F PSEN1 mutagenesis: aagaaagcattgccagcttttccaatctccatcacctttgggc Invitrogen Custom synthesized
DNA primers for L286V PSEN1 mutagenesis: gaaacgctttttccagctgtcatttactcctcaacaatggtg Invitrogen Custom synthesized
DNA inserts for plasmid construction and generation of transgenic C. elegans lines GeneArt/ ThermoFisher Custom synthesized; see Table S7

Recombinant DNA

pMLINK-PSEN1 Coauthor Y. Shi Lu et al.12
pMLINK-Aph1 (with C-terminal HA epitope tag) Coauthor Y. Shi Lu et al.12
pMLINK-NCT (with C-terminal V5 and 6XHIS epitope tags) Coauthor Y. Shi Lu et al.12
pMLINK-Pen-2 (with N-terminal STREP and FLAG epitope tags) Coauthor Y. Shi Lu et al.12
pMLINK-PSEN1-Aph1-NCT-Pen-2 This study Lu et al.12
pMLINK-PSEN1(L166P)-Aph1-NCT-Pen-2 This study N/A
pMLINK-PSEN1(G384A)-Aph1-NCT-Pen-2 This study N/A
pMLINK-PSEN1 (I143T)-Aph1-NCT-Pen-2 This study N/A
pMLINK-PSEN1(L435P)-Aph1-NCT-Pen-2 This study N/A
pMLINK-PSEN1(L286V)-Aph1-NCT-Pen-2 This study N/A
pMLINK-PSEN1(P117L)-Aph1-NCT-Pen-2 This study N/A
pET22b-C100-FLAG In-house Li et al52
pCMV(puro)-C99 with APP signal sequence Lei Liu, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Bhattarai et al.53
C99 miRFP720-miRFP670 (C99 720-670) biosensor Coauthor M. Maesako Houser et al.54
pcDNA3.1-C99 miRFP720 This study N/A
worm expression vector pEVL415 (Prgef-1:htau40::gfp::unc-54 3′UTR) Co-author B. Ackley Aquino Nunez et al.55

Software and algorithms

Prism 9 version 9.5.1 GraphPad https://www.graphpad.com
Sigmaplot for Windows v.14 Systat Software GmbH http://www.systat.de/
Fiji ImageJ 1.53c NIH https://imagej.nih.gov/
AzureSpot Azure Biosystems https://azurebiosystems.com/
MassLynx Waters https://www.waters.com
RELION 3.0 https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/relion Luo et al.56
CHARMM-GUI https://www.charmm-gui.org/ Jo et al.; Lee et al.; Wu et al.5759
Peptide Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (Pep-GaMD) Coauthor Y. Miao Wang & Miao60
Amber 20 https://ambermd.org/ Case et al.61
VMD https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/ Humphrey et al.62
PyReweighting Coauthor Y. Miao Miao et al.63
SPC-830 (fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy data collection) Becker & Hickl GmbH https://www.becker-hickl.com
SPC Image software version 2.5 (fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy analysis Becker & Hickl GmbH https://www.becker-hickl.com
MATLAB (pseudo-color fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy) MathWorks https://www.mathworks.com/
LAS X Imaging software v3.5.7 (confocal microscopy of C. elegans) Leica Microsystems https://www.leica-microsystems.com/
Fluoview SW FV10 - ASW v. 4.00 (fluorescence microscopy of C. elegans) Olympus Life Science https://www.olympus-lifescience.com/