The phrase "act as drivers" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe entities or factors that influence or propel a particular action or outcome.
Example: "The economic policies implemented by the government act as drivers of growth in the technology sector."
Alternatives: "serve as catalysts" or "function as motivators."
They wanted to use this mission, and they've spent spies and intelligence officers along with our teams to act as drivers and minders to gather information.
In regions where several communities are dependent on shared resources such as water or land, concerted endeavours to successfully manage them can act as drivers of peace, consequently building mutual trust between conflicting parties.
These AMF may act as drivers of various ecological processes (Shah et al. 2009).
A large group of entrepreneurial new firms have limited impact on economic growth, while a rather small group of new entrepreneurial firms act as drivers of economic progress.
These mechanisms act as drivers of evolutionary change by changing the distribution of alleles within a population (Herron and Freeman 2014; Morris et al. 2013).
Regression tree analysis revealed a number of likely soil chemical and microbial variables which may act as drivers of gene abundance of amoA and nifH.
Given the highly complex pattern of genetic alterations which, in advanced tumors, may also involve members of the FA family of genes, these limited observations cannot answer the question whether alterations involving FA genes in a given tumor act as driver or passenger mutations.
We have investigated these mutations, looking at whether they could act as driver or passenger mutations in neuroblastoma, with the aim of predicting their potential role in disease progression.
Modification of alternative splicing is known to be important in cancer development (12) and the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (13), and recent work has shown that somatic mutations affecting splicing can act as driver mutations in tumors (14).
This is the first evidence for the existence of population-specific satellite DNA profiles and strong support for the hypothesis that satellite DNA can act as driver of genome divergence at the population level.
Very recently, a high frequency of somatic mutations have been discovered in the promoter of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) in cutaneous melanoma, resulting in increased transcriptional activity at the TERT promoter that might act as driver mutations (Horn et al, 2013; Huang et al, 2013).
