“…R2866_0112 was found to contribute most significantly to survival of NTHi strain R2866 in the presence of active complement, which was in accordance with our previous genome‐wide mariner transposon mutants screen with genomic array footprinting (GAF) as read‐out (Langereis et al ., ). Other genes ( lgtF , lgtC , losB2 , lic2A , neuA , siaP , siaT and mlaE ) that were identified in our screen, were earlier found to be involved in resistance to complement‐mediated killing (Hood et al ., 1999; 2004; 2010; Ho et al ., ; Nakamura et al ., ; Morey et al ., ). Furthermore, two genes were identified for which a role in complement resistance was not established previously ( lapB [ R2866_1281 ] and clpB [ R2866_1533 ]).…”