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The researchers suspect that the negatively charged polyphosphate helps overcome electrostatic repulsion from three positively charged amino acids that rub shoulders in the packed fibril structure.

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By analyzing the structure carefully, they also identified three key amino acid residues which they determined to be key to this unusual response.