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Sensitive assay of Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the premise of accurate prevention and con-trol of AIDS. Dumbbell DNA showed promising potential in biosensing, imaging applications. This study presents a highly sensitive biosensing platform integrating dumbbell-shaped DNA probes with rolling circle transcription (RCT)-regulated CRISPR-Cas12a to achieve cascade signal amplification. The arrangement of the functional regions in the same unclosed dumbbell probes (UDPs) might affect final performance in the biosensor. Three different types UDPs (A/B/C) were specifically designed and the performances of the UDPs were evaluated in the RCT-CRISPR based cascade platform. Among these, type A UDP shows the best performance with a detection limit of 44.8 aM targeting HIV-DNA as well as high sensitivity and specificity. Also, type A UDP had the best behavior in the clinical sample assay. The difference of UDPs' performance might attribute to the variation of opening form of the UDPs considering the arrangement of various functional regions. The platform's modular design supports customization for diverse nucleic acid targets, making it adaptable for early disease detection and precision diagnostics.
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