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It is apparent that the MHC-I and MHC-II molecules per se do not have the built-in ability to distinguish the huge populations of self-peptides from antigenic non-self-peptides. At present, the precise mechanism underlying the selective presentation of antigenic peptides by both MHC-I and MHC-II molecules is unclear. For an MHC-II molecule to gain the ability to selectively present antigenic (mostly foreign) peptides, it is hypothesized herein that all na\u00efve CD4+ T cells in the body will release extracellular vesicles (EVs), which are specially designed for antigen-presenting cells (APCs); these EVs contain mRNAs that will be delivered to APCs and translated into an intracellular version of the TCR proteins (iTCRII), which will help select antigenic peptides for presentation by the MHC-II molecules. Similarly, it is hypothesized that the fully activated CD4+ T cells will also release EVs, and these EVs contain different mRNAs for another intracellular version of the TCR proteins (iTCRI), which will help pathogen-infected somatic cells to select the antigenic peptides (mostly from invading pathogens) for presentation by the MHC-I molecules. Understandably, while the iTCRII proteins will work closely with the MHC-II molecules in the exogenous endocytic pathway, the iTCRI proteins will work closely with the MHC-I molecules in the endogenous pathway. In this paper, a few other related hypotheses are also proposed, which jointly offer a plausible mechanistic explanation for the selective presentation of antigenic peptides by both MHC-I and MHC-II molecules. 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