FUS and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: The role of FUS in neurons recently gained importance when, along with a related RNA-binding protein TDP-43, it was found to be involved in the neurodegenerative disorders – ALS and frontal temporal dementia (FTD) (Arai et al., 2006; Neumann et al., 2006, 2009; Kwiatkowski et al., 2009; Vance et al., 2009).