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To close this gap, we investigated ONH and RET protein extracts derived from porcine eyes (n = 12) (Sus scrofa domestica Linnaeus 1758) using semi-quantitative mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics comprising bottom-up LC\u2013ESI MS\/MS and targeted SPE-MALDI-TOF MS analysis. In summary, more than 1600 proteins could be identified from the ONH\/RET tissue complex. Moreover, ONH and RET displayed tissue-specific characteristics regarding their qualitative and semi-quantitative protein compositions. Gene ontology (GO)-based functional and protein\u2013protein interaction analyses supported a close functional connection between the metabolic-related RET and the structural-associated ONH subproteomes, which could be affected under disease conditions. Inferred from the MS findings, stress-associated proteins including clusterin, ceruloplasmin, and endoplasmin can be proposed as extracellular mediators of the ONH\/ RET proteome interface. 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