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While B-cell trafficking across the blood\u2013brain barrier has been intensely investigated, cellular diapedesis through the blood\u2013CSF barrier (BCSFB) is incompletely understood. To investigate how B cells interact with the choroid plexus to transmigrate into the CSF we isolated circulating B cells from healthy donors (HC) and MS patients, utilized an inverted cell culture filter system of human choroid plexus papilloma (HIBCPP) cells to determine transmigration rates of B-cell subsets, immunofluorescence, and electron microscopy to analyze migration routes, and qRT-PCR to determine cytokines\/chemokines mediating B-cell diapedesis. We also screened the transcriptome of intrathecal B cells from MS patients. We found, that spontaneous transmigration of HC- and MS-derived B cells was scant, yet increased significantly in response to B-cell specific chemokines CXCL-12\/CXCL-13, was further boosted upon pre-activation and occurred <jats:italic>via<\/jats:italic> paracellular and transcellular pathways. Migrating cells exhibited upregulation of several genes involved in B-cell activation\/migration and enhanced expression of chemokine receptors CXCR4\/CXCR5, and were predominantly of isotype class switched memory phenotype. This antigen-experienced migratory subset displayed more pronounced chemotactic activities in MS than in HC and was retrieved in intrathecal B cells from patients with active MS. Trafficking of class-switched memory B cells was downscaled in a small cohort of natalizumab-exposed MS patients and the proportions of these phenotypes were reduced in peripheral blood yet were enriched intrathecally in patients who experienced recurrence of disease activity after withdrawal of natalizumab. 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