... genes, including Dec2 and PPARc2,intheabsence of other transcription facto rs, such as CLOCK and BMAL1 [9,10 ,22 ,23 ]: an N-terminal region between aminoacids 1 and 141, and another region between ... ility for the E-box (lane 7), and substitution of Arg65 for Ala(DEC1-R65A and DEC1:4– 23 32- R65A) abolished DEC1 binding to the E-box (lanes 6 and 16). On t he other hand, deletion of up to 27 3 residuesfrom ... Dec2 expression was f ound to increase in the mutantmice, the disruption of DEC1 might be compensated byDEC2. Further investigation is required to clarify the functions of DEC1 and DEC2.The...