“…To investigate interactions between porphyrins and group I ribozymes, we employed meso -tetraarylporphyrins ( Figure 1 ) as a core platform structure because they have been used frequently in designing porphyrin-based functional molecules [ 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 ]. In this study, we primarily used pPyP and pPyNCP ( Figure 1 ) [ 23 , 28 ]. pPyP and pPyNCP have been shown to interact with various forms of DNA molecules, including single- and double-stranded DNAs [ 23 , 28 ].…”