Spx

'An unvarnished, pre-war gospel quality' … Al Spx, aka Cold Specks

First sight: Cold Specks 2011

Spx has a specifically American, deep south sound.

First sight: Cold Specks 2011

Her other name is Al Spx, and she's a 23-year-old Canadian singer, now living in London, where she's recording her debut LP with help from producer Rob Ellis.

First sight: Cold Specks 2011

The show opened with a short set by Cold Specks Al Spx, a young singer from Etobicoke with a hefty voice and a hard-time, field-of-prayers singing style that put me in mind of Odetta.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN 2011

The show opened with a short set by Cold Specks Al Spx, a young singer from Etobicoke with a hefty voice and a hard-time, field-of-prayers singing style that put me in mind of Odetta.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN 2011

The show opened with a short set by Cold Specks Al Spx, a young singer from Etobicoke with a hefty voice and a hard-time, field-of-prayers singing style that put me in mind of Odetta.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN 2011

In parallel, structural studies identify a change in the conformation of a helix α4 of Spx when residue C10 of the redox disulfide center at its N-terminus is mutated to serine.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2010

Genetic and biochemical studies showed that the G52 residue of Spx and the Y263 residue of αCTD form part of the contact interface between Spx and RNAP, which was confirmed by the x-ray structure determination of the αCTD/Spx complex

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michiko M. Nakano et al. 2010

(B) Symbols: squares, ORB6129 with SpxDD; circles, ORB6934 with Spx

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2010

Spx alone is unable to bind the trxB promoter, but Spx is capable of generating a supershifted trxB-αCTD-Spx complex in an electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA).

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michiko M. Nakano et al. 2010