The phrase "act as hubs" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe entities or individuals that serve as central points of connection or coordination within a network or system.
Example: "In our organization, various departments act as hubs for collaboration, facilitating communication and resource sharing."
Alternatives: "serve as centers" or "function as nodes".
"Pubs and bars can act as hubs of community life, important for mental health and wellbeing.
On the beach, the women stick around to direct their cargo to waiting tap-tap trucks, bound for nearby storage depots that act as hubs for the small retailers across southern Haiti that sell peasants their soap and staples.
Despite the delay, Sun's sales last year were so strong that it surged past I.B.M. to become the sales leader in the $20 billion domestic market for servers -- computers that act as hubs in data networks.
In this context, prestigious developers act as hubs of information and knowledge flow in software development.
Libraries can act as hubs for online learning within a community, Horrigan says.
Some high-degree nodes act as hubs inside the AS; however, they are not connected to other ASes usually.
The observation that PARP-1 also binds to this region provides further support for the idea that DNA glycosylases, such as NEIL1, act as hub proteins by interacting with numerous factors involved in BER in order to drive downstream steps.
Hence, loci that act as hub-switches, controlling a set of phenotypes through a single genetic or epigenetic event, could increase mean fitness of a population when changes in several physical parameters occur simultaneously.
Back in the 2000s, we'd spend our time hanging out in squats we hoped would become social centres, along the lines of the Italian occupied spaces in Italy which acted as hubs for the anti-globalisation movement over there.
Within this combined diploid-specific G1 repair network, nine highly interactive gene nodes acted as "hubs" to directly interconnect as first neighbors with seven of the other "hub" genes important for the diploid-specific toleration of DOX damage.
The majority of comodules contained less than 2000 mRNAs and 60 miRNAs, and a few mRNAs and miRNAs acted as "hubs" by being part of up to 600 different comodules.
