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"appendix a supplementary data the following are the supplementary data to this article: supplementary data 1 supplementary data 2 acknowledgements we are grateful to the institute of bioengineering ( ) phd studentship funding (funded through the ) and the for research grant funding (bb/r003610/1)."

"We are grateful to the Institute of Bioengineering (QMUL) PhD studentship funding (funded through the EPSRC) and the BBSRC for research grant funding (BB/R003610/1). HSG acknowledges support from UKRI (MR/R025673/1). EB is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP18K18065 and the Cross-Ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion (SIP) Program for Deep Ocean Resources. NJT acknowledges support from BBSRC (BB/R004773/1). We thank Diamond Light Source (Harwell, UK) for synchrotron beamtime (SM10311) and Dr. A. Smith, Dr. O. Shebanova and Dr. T. Snow (I22) and Dr. F. Cacho-Nerin (I18) at DLS for excellent technical support during beamtimes."