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Full text Loes, Andrea N., Jamie T. Bridgham, and Michael J. Harms. “Coevolution of the Toll-like receptor 4 complex with calgranulins and lipopolysaccharide.” Frontiers in immunology 9 (2018): 304.
Full text Wheeler LC, Anderson JA, Morrison AJ, Wong CE, Harms MJ. “Conservation of specificity in two low-specificity proteins” Biochemistry. ASAP. 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b01086
Full text Wheeler LC, Harms MJ. “Human S100A5 binds Ca2+ and Cu2+ independently” BMC Biophysics. 10:8 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13628-017-0040-y
Full text Sailer ZR, Harms MJ. “Molecular ensembles make evolution unrpredictable” (2017). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. doi:10.1073/pnas.1711927114
Full text Sailer ZR, Harms MJ. “High-order epistasis shapes evolutionary trajectories.” (2017). PLOS Computational Biology. 13(5):e1005541.
Full text Sailer ZR, Harms MJ. “Detecting High-Order Epistasis in Nonlinear Genotype-Phenotype Maps.” (2017). Genetics, 205(3):1079–1088.
Full text Eick GN, Bridgham JT, Anderson DP, Harms MJ, Thornton JW. “Robustness of Reconstructed Ancestral Protein Functions to Statistical Uncertainty” (2017). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(2):247–261
Full text Lim SA, Hart KM, Harms MJ, Marqusee S. “Evolutionary trend toward kinetic stability in the folding trajectory of RNases H.” (2016). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 113(46):13045–13050.
Full text Wheeler LC, Donor MT, Prell JS, Harms MJ. “Multiple Evolutionary Origins of Ubiquitous Cu2+ and Zn2+ Binding in the S100 Protein Family.” (2016). PLoS ONE. 11(10): e0164740
Full text Wheeler LC, Lim SA, Marqusee S, Harms MJ. “The thermostability and specificity of ancient proteins.” (2016). Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 38:37-43
Full text Hart KM, Harms MJ, Schmidt BH, Elya C, Thornton JW, Marqusee S. “Thermodynamic System Drift in Protein Evolution.” (2014). PLoS Biology. 12(11):e1001994
Full text Harms MJ & Thornton JW. “Historical contingency and its biophysical basis in glucocorticoid receptor evolution.” (2014). Nature. doi:10.1038/nature13410
Full text Harms MJ & Thornton JW. “Evolutionary biochemistry: Revealing the historical and physical causes of protein function.” (2013). Nature Reviews Genetics. 14(8):559-571
Full text Harms MJ, Eick GN, Goswami D, Colucci JK, Griffin PR, Ortlund EA, Thornton JW. “Biophysical mechanisms for large-effect mutations in the evolution of steroid hormone receptors.” (2013) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.  110(28):11475–11480
Full text Williams SG, Harms MJ, Hall KB. “Resurrection of an Urbilaterian U1A/U2B”/SNF protein.” (2013) Journal of Molecular Biology.  425(20):3846–3862 
Full text Eick GN, Colucci J, Harms MJ, Ortlund EA, Thornton JW. “Evolution of minimal specificity in the steroid receptors.” (2012) PLoS Genetics. 8(11):e1003072 
Full text Harms MJ, Schlessman JL, Sue GR, García-Moreno E. B. “Arginine is ionized at internal positions in a protein.” (2011) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 108(47):18954-9. Listed as “Must Read” on Faculty of 1000.
Full text Bridgham JT, Eick G, Larroux C, Deshpande K, Harms MJ, Gauthier MEA, Ortlund EA, Degnan BM, Thornton JW (2010). “Protein evolution by molecular tinkering: diversification of the nuclear receptor superfamily from a ligand-dependent ancestor.” PLoS Biology 8(10): e1000497 
Full text Harms MJ, Thornton JW. (2010). “Analyzing protein structure and function using ancestral gene reconstruction.” Current Opinions in Structural Biology. 20(3):360-366.
Full text Harms MJ, Castañeda CA, Schlessman JL, Sue GR, Isom DG, Cannon BR, García- Moreno E. B. (2009). “The pKa values of acidic and basic residues buried at the same internal location in a protein are governed by different factors.” Journal of Molecular Biology. 389:34-47. Listed as “Must Read” on Faculty of 1000.
Full text Thesis.  Harms, MJ. “Molecular determinants of pKa values of internal ionizable groups in staphylococcal nuclease.” The Johns Hopkins University, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2009. 3339887.
Full text Harms MJ, Schlessman JL, Chimenti MS, Sue GR, Damjanovic A, García-Moreno E. B. (2008). “A buried lysine that titrates with a normal pKa: Role of conformational flexibility at the protein–water interface as a determinant of pKa values.” Protein Science. 17:833-845.
Full text Hays FA, Teegarden A, Jones ZJR, Harms MJ, Raup D, Watson F, Cavaliere E, Ho PS. (2005). “How sequence defines structure: a crystallographic map of DNA structure and conformation.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 102(20):7157-7162.
Full text Harms MJ, Wilmarth PA, Kapfer DM, Steel EA, David LL, Bachinger HP, Lampi KJ. (2003). “Laser light-scattering evidence for an altered association of βB1- crystallin deamidated in the connecting peptide.” Protein Science. 13:678-686.