摘要:
There is provided a method of quantitative determination using a flow cytometer, with which quantitative determination of cell surface protein can be effected more accurately than with current methods. The inventors have achieved the present invention by providing a method of quantitative determination of sites, per cell of a test sample, at which an antibody is bound to an antigen protein (sites/cell), characterized by preparing a calibration curve on the basis of fluorescent intensities obtained through measuring with a flow cytometer the amount of labeled antibodies against antigen protein which are bound to two or more groups of beads carrying known and different amounts of the antigen protein, and numeric values of the known amounts of the antigen protein, and further by measuring, with the flow cytometer, labeled antibodies against antigen protein after they have been reacted with test cells derived from a blood sample of a test subject, whereby digitalization is effected through comparison and conversion between the calibration curve and a fluorescence intensity obtained.