... interaction of DEC1 with BMAL1 has been suggested a s one of themolecular mechanisms of the suppression [Honma, S.,Kawamoto, T., Takagi, Y., Fujimoto, K., Sato, F.,Noshiro, M., Kato, Y. & ... 10 ng) of FLAG-DEC1 expression vector were co-transfected with pDEC1-E-ABC-TK, together with expression vectors for CL OCK and BMAL1. The total amount of transfected DNA wasadjustedtothesamevalue,ineachexperiment,bytheadditionofanemptyvector ... CLOCK/BMAL1 through com-petition for binding to E-boxes and/or protein–proteininteractions of DECs with BMAL1 [ 7]. Furthermore, w erecently demonstrated the existence of a novel autofeedbackloop...