About the Authors

Kaspar Podgorski

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences and the Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ewald Terpetschnig

Affiliation SETA BioMedicals, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Oleksii P. Klochko

Affiliation State Scientific Institution “Institute for Single Crystals” of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Olena M. Obukhova

Affiliation State Scientific Institution “Institute for Single Crystals” of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Kurt Haas

kurt.haas@ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences and the Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflict: Dr. Ewald Terpetschnig works for SETA BioMedicals, which produces and commercializes the dyes characterized in this manuscript. All characterization reported here was carried out by Podgorski and Haas independently of this company. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KP KH ET. Performed the experiments: KP. Analyzed the data: KP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ET OPK OMO. Wrote the paper: KP KH ET.