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We thank the Imperial College Facility for Imaging by Light Microscopy (FILM) for technical support on light microscopy experiments, the Electron Microscopy Centre at the Centre of Structural Biology, Imperial College London, for support during TEM data acquisition, and Dr Ricardo Aramayo at the Electron Microscopy Facility of the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) for support during cryo-CLEM sample preparation