These fungal “omic” analyses have in particular
clarified our picture of the wood-decay enzymology of
P. chrysosporium but also put up a number (over 200) of
unknown proteins that are putatively secreted by the
fungus. In order to identify the novel proteins and
achieve a more general view of the biological mechanisms
of fungal wood decay and the various white rot
basidiomycete secretomes, comparative genomic research
on other, taxonomically near and far related
fungal species are currently underway