Table 2. Polymer statistics of the simulated deposition scenarios in comparison to the normalized apparent persistence length of obtained filaments adsorbed to different supports.

surface	<s>LP a	LP<cos(Θ)>/LP	LP<Θ2>/LP	LP<R2>/LP	correlation
simulated	filamentsb	LP = 1
strong	1	0.44	0.37	0.44	Yes/0.02
strong	2	0.40	0.29	0.39	Yes/0.04
strong	4	0.32	0.20	0.32	Yes/0.10
Vimentin	LP = 1050 nm
Mica	1.0	0.32	0.33	0.42	Yes/0.02
Mica	2.5	0.30	0.28	0.35	Yes/0.07
Mica	3.9	0.31	0.17	0.30	Yes/0.12

All mean errors were less than 1% in case of simulated filaments and less than 5% for the IFs. No correlation was found for the equilibrated vimentin filaments. The integral is 0.00 for both lengths.

^aLength s of the filaments divided by the persistence length L_P (assumption: full equilibrated); L_P is the mean value of all persistence lengths measured with weak filament-protein interaction.

^b2000 counts.