The phrase "act as a component" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the role or function of something within a larger system or process.
Example: "In this project, the software will act as a component that integrates various data sources."
Alternatives: "function as a part" or "serve as an element".
In the first stage, K-DEMO will demonstrate a net electricity generation but will also act as a component test facility.
Technical artifacts, then, are made to serve some purpose, generally to be used for something or to act as a component in a larger artifact, which in its turn is either something to be used or again a component.
Bud3p is thought to act as a component of a spatial landmark.
To test whether CHD-3 may act as a component of a NuRD complex, we analyzed the expression level of one of its target genes, fbxa-103, in worms RNAi-depleted for diverse NuRD members.
SOCS6 was shown to act as a component of the ECS E3 ligase complex, interacting with c-KIT and regulating its ubiquitylation and turnover.
Using Normalization Process Theory [ 19] as an analytic framework, Hoshin Kanri might act as a component of context that enables, constrains, resources and realizes people and procedures with the goal of changing people's actions.
The additives acted as a component regulator to improve the reactivity of the residue after recovering iron.
This device shall be tritium self-sufficient, produce net electricity, and acts as a component test facility to demonstrate fusion power plant relevant technologies, e.g. those of the breeding blanket.
Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) is a nuclear DNA-binding protein activated by DNA damage, belonging to a family of more than seventeen members, that catalyzes the attachment of ADP-ribose to target proteins, acts as a component of enhancer/promoter regulatory complexes and participates in the regulation of DNA repair and genomic integrity maintenance [7].
Dref is a transcription factor that acts as a component of a transcription-initiation complex containing TBP-Related Factor2 (TRF2) [ 34].
These genes encode an AAA-ATPase subunit that acts as a component of the 26S proteasome machinery.
