Observed length distributions of cytoplasmic intermediate filaments compared with MC simulations.

<p>Mean lengths and assembly conditions are summarized in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0157451#pone.0157451.t003" target="_blank">Table 3</a> (bold). 10 simulations were performed at protein concentration of 17.5 g/l (grey bars, for details see bottom <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0157451#pone.0157451.t001" target="_blank">Table 1</a>). 4 simulations were performed at similar conditions, but the reaction solid angle and the bond angle was set to 25° resulting in a reduction of the persistence length to 1/3 (black line). In both cases the profile at a mean length of 7.9 ULF is shown. Interestingly the shape of the histogram is the same, but the number of sweeps to reach that distribution is decreased by a factor of 4 (<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0157451#pone.0157451.t003" target="_blank">Table 3</a>).