Table 1 Compartments created in the CellDesigner platform in line with the structure and function of the outer retina.

From: Repository of proposed pathways and protein–protein interaction networks in age-related macular degeneration

Outer retina anatomical compartments

Substructures within anatomical compartments

Further subclassification of anatomical structures and organelles

Organelles and deposits in anatomical substructures

Choroid

Choriocapillaris

Lumen

Macrophage

 

Choriocapillaris

Endothelium

Mitochondria

 

Bruch’s membrane

Outer collagen free zone

 
  

Outer collagenous layer

 
  

Elastin layer

 
  

Inner collagenous layer

 
  

Inner collagen free zone

Hard drusen

   

Soft drusen/basal linear deposit

RPE

RPE basement membrane

Basal laminar deposit

 
  

Exosome

 
 

RPE

Nucleus

 
  

Endoplasmic reticulum

 
  

Golgi

 
  

Mitochondria

 
  

Endocytic vesicle

 
  

Transcytotic vesicle

 
  

Transport vesicle

 
  

Early endosome

 
  

Recycling endosome

 
  

Late endosome

 
  

Lysosome

 
  

Phagosome

 
  

Phagolysosome

 
  

Autophagosome

 
  

Melanosome

 
  

Secretory vesicle

 

Interphotoreceptor Matrix

Reticular subretinal drusenoid deposit

  
 

Macrophage

  

Photoreceptor

Rod outer segment

Disks

 
 

Shed rod outer segment

Disks

 
 

Cilium

  
 

Rod inner segment

Endocytic vesicle

 
  

Mitochondria

 
 

Endoplasmic reticulum

  
 

Nucleus