Amir Lakizadeh

Dr. Amir Lakizadeh

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Academic Career Length

16Years (2011-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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16 September 2022 in Scientific Reports
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MAMohammad Hussain Al-Rabeah
Mohammad Hussain Al-Rabeah
ALAmir Lakizadeh
Amir Lakizadeh
The prevalence of multi_drug therapies has been increasing in recent years, particularly among the elderly who are suffering from several diseases. However, unexpected Drug_Drug interaction (DDI) can cause adverse reactions or critical toxicity, which puts patients in danger. As the need for multi_drug treatment increases, it's becoming increasingly necessary to discover DDIs. Nevertheless, DDIs detection in an extensive number of drug pairs, both in-vitro and in-vivo, is costly and laborious. Therefore, DDI identification is one of the most concerns in drug-related researches. In this paper, we propose GNN-DDI, a deep learning-based method for predicting DDI-associated events in two stages. In the first stage, we collect the drugs information from different sources and then integrate them through the formation of an attributed heterogeneous network and generate a drug embedding vector based on different drug interaction types and drug attributes. In the second stage, we aggregate the representation vectors then predictions of the DDIs and their events are performed through a deep multi-model framework. Various evaluation results show that the proposed method can outperform state-of-the methods in the prediction of drug-drug interaction-associated events. The experimental results indicate that producing the drug's representations based on different drug interaction types and attributes is efficient and effective and can better show the intrinsic characteristics of a drug.

10 August 2011 in PLOS ONE
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MEMansour Ebrahimi
Mansour Ebrahimi
ALAmir Lakizadeh
Amir Lakizadeh
Parisa AghagolzadehParisa Aghagolzadeh
Parisa Aghagolzadeh
Esmaeil EbrahimieEsmaeil Ebrahimie
Esmaeil Ebrahimie
MEMahdi Ebrahimi
Mahdi Ebrahimi
The engineering of thermostable enzymes is receiving increased attention. The paper, detergent, and biofuel industries, in particular, seek to use environmentally friendly enzymes instead of toxic chlorine chemicals. Enzymes typically function at temperatures below 60°C and denature if exposed to higher temperatures. In contrast, a small portion of enzymes can withstand higher temperatures as a result of various structural adaptations. Understanding the protein attributes that are involved in this adaptation is the first step toward engineering thermostable enzymes. We employed various supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms as well as attribute weighting approaches to find amino acid composition attributes that contribute to enzyme thermostability. Specifically, we compared two groups of enzymes: mesostable and thermostable enzymes. Furthermore, a combination of attribute weighting with supervised and unsupervised clustering algorithms was used for prediction and modelling of protein thermostability from amino acid composition properties. Mining a large number of protein sequences (2090) through a variety of machine learning algorithms, which were based on the analysis of more than 800 amino acid attributes, increased the accuracy of this study. Moreover, these models were successful in predicting thermostability from the primary structure of proteins. The results showed that expectation maximization clustering in combination with uncertainly and correlation attribute weighting algorithms can effectively (100%) classify thermostable and mesostable proteins. Seventy per cent of the weighting methods selected Gln content and frequency of hydrophilic residues as the most important protein attributes. On the dipeptide level, the frequency of Asn-Glu was the key factor in distinguishing mesostable from thermostable enzymes. This study demonstrates the feasibility of predicting thermostability irrespective of sequence similarity and will serve as a basis for engineering thermostable enzymes in the laboratory.

18 February 2025 in Intelligence-Based Medicine
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HIHayder Ibadi
Hayder Ibadi
ALAmir Lakizadeh
Amir Lakizadeh

24 January 2022 in Molecular Diversity
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ALAmir Lakizadeh
Amir Lakizadeh
MBMahdi Babaei
Mahdi Babaei

1 August 2015 in Journal of Theoretical Biology
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ALAmir Lakizadeh
Amir Lakizadeh
SJSaeed Jalili
Saeed Jalili
Sayed-Amir MarashiSayed-Amir Marashi
Sayed-Amir Marashi

1 October 2015 in Computational Biology and Chemistry
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ALAmir Lakizadeh
Amir Lakizadeh
SJSaeed Jalili
Saeed Jalili
Sayed-Amir MarashiSayed-Amir Marashi
Sayed-Amir Marashi