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superantgens are microbial and viral toxins such as staph.aurues and strpt.pyogenes that comprise a class of disease associated immunostimulatory molecules . superantigens bind to MHC II molecules and provide signal for Tcell activation , SAgs are active at very low concentration causing release of large amounts of cytokines

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