The present invention provides a method for controlling the spatial
arrangement of an energy donor and an energy acceptor in a reaction
complex in order to carry out the measurement with good precision and
high sensitivity, and a measurement system using the method. Two types of
material having affinity for the subject material to be measured are
respectively labeled with a combination of reporters that give rise to
energy transfer; those that have been thus obtained by labeling these
materials are each further labeled with materials that have weak affinity
for each other to give reagents, which are then mixed with a sample to
give the reaction complex. Each of the materials is brought into spatial
proximity by binding based on the affinity among the materials having
weak affinity for each other in the reaction complex, and since that
condition is stably maintained, a more efficient energy transfer occurs.