Molecular dynamics simulations were applied to normal conformational Glutathione (GSH) and GSH over zwitterionic and hydrophobic surfaces respectively. Conformational analysis of GSH during the simulation time on RMSD, conformational flexibility and dihedral distribution were performed. The results showed that zwitterionic structure maintains the normal conformations of GSH to a better extent, which should be a first good proof of the hypothesis of "maintain of normal structure".protein-surface interactions, molecular dynamics simulation, zwitterionic structure, Glutathione, conformational changes, antithrombotic material Antithrombotic improvement of materials is one of the biggest challenges to develop biomaterials [1,2] . The hypothesis of "maintain of normal structure" predicted theoretically that zwitterionic structure should behave well in anticoagulation through maintaining the normal structure of contacting proteins. While recent experimental studies on surface-grafted zwitterionic biomaterials have proved good blood compatibility [3][4][5] , the validity of this hypothesis still waits to be testified from the interactions between zwitterionic surface and proteins on the sub-molecular level. Molecular dynamics simulation using empirical force fields provides one of the most direct methods of theoretically investigating the behaviors of complex molecular systems and is well-suited for the simulation of protein-surface interactions. However, all-atom modeling of proteins is not feasible in current work due to the limiting computational resources. Most relating researches are focusing on some small peptides [6][7][8] which contain only several amino acids and the simulation of big proteins has not yielded expected results [9] . Glutathione (GSH), a ubiquitous tripeptide which plays a number of vital roles in cell metabolism was then selected to develop the GSH-Surface models. Besides its particular antidotal function in physiology, GSH was chosen as peptide for simulation for several reasons as follows: (1) The charge state of GSH under physiological condition is stable [10] . Of the whole sixteen charge states, an unique one with net charge â1 dominates ,as shown in Figure 1; (2) The three constituting amino acid residues are typical. For charge state, the Glu residue is neutral but zwiterrionic, the Cys residue is neutral, and the Gly residue is negative. For interaction with water molecules, the Cys and Gly residues have hydrophilic sidechains while the Glu's alkyl sidechain is hydrophobic; (3) The denaturalization of proteins is to some extent induced by local conformational changes. GSH structure, which was found bound to a variety of proteins, has a small size with only three residues and is convenient for simulation to investigate