This is pretty well studied problem. You may want to look at these papers to learn how the model incompleteness affects the refinement (and hence your final Rfactors):

V.Y. Lunin, P.V. Afonine & A.G. Urzhumtsev. (2002). Acta Cryst., A58, 270-282.

Afonine P.V.  (2002). CCP4 Newsletter on Protein Crystallography. 41.

I'm sure a few mins of googling gives you a whole bunch of other publications related to this.

Cheers,
Pavel.



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Isn't such a small difference Rfree - Rwork (i.e. 0.5%) rather
improbable at that resolution?

-- Ian

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> In one of my structures at 2 Ang resolution , the final
> Rfactor and Rfree values were 21.9% and 22.4% respectively. I
> had ~18-19% total protein missing in the final model. All of
> this missing protein is completely disordered in all
> nucleosome structures known to date and likely have no or
> insignificant effect on the Rfactor and Rfree. The final
> model also had a lot else accounted for, namely, 100% of the
> DNA, ~900 water molecules, lots of ions and a ligand.
>
> But had I omitted, say, 18-19% of structured helices from the
> protein model, the Rfactor and Rfree would increase
> significantly. Then, if I continued to refine without
> accounting for most of the model or without improving the
> model in any manner, I could expect to see an artificial
> lowering of the Rfactor without any further decrease in the
> Rfree and a resulting increase in the difference between the
> Rfactor and the Rfree.
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> I don't know what the nature of your 'missing residues' is.
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> HTH.
> Raji
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> > Hi, all:
> >      If for a small protein, about 10% residues missing, will it
> > affect the final R and Rfree?
> >      If yes, how serious will it be?
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> > thanks
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