The phrase "acted as a core" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a central or fundamental role that something plays within a system or context.
Example: "In the project, the new software acted as a core component, facilitating communication between different teams."
Alternatives: "served as a central element" or "functioned as a key part".
Government sanctioned slavery meant that the hundreds of years, of millions of people laboring for free acted as a core driver of economic growth and GNP/GDP expansion.
Tommy Cheung Yu-Yan, who holds the seat of the catering industry functional constituency in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, acted as a core policy link between the HKWSIC and the government, advocating for reductions in alcohol taxation.
The model has the potential to act as a core for knowledge representation, sharing and reuse in the multidisciplinary domain of SI.
PAI-1 (plasminogen activator Inhibitor-1), the downstream target of NF-κB in AHFs and CAFs, acts as a core in trigging cell growth and polarity changes of epithelium-like tumor cell MCF-7.
Moreover, at the morphological level, the block in erythroid differentiation and reduced cellularity observed within Mtf2 KO embryos phenocopies that observed within KO embryos of other PRC2 core members10,11, further demonstrating that Mtf2 within the hematopoietic system acts as a core complex member.
I argue that in a world system or refugees, there is also a semi-periphery, which acts as a core for the periphery.
Silver sulfide nanoparticles can provide electrons and make silver ions adsorb on the surface of it and act as a core and reducing agent.
Immanuel Wallerstein's world system theory added the semi-periphery to core and periphery, which has certain features different to the core and to the periphery.4 The semi-periphery would act as a core for the periphery, while it was a buffer between the core and the periphery.
From our present results in conjunction with other previously established interactions we construct a 3D model in which VP24 acts as a core protein that directly associates with VP26, VP28, VP38A, VP51A and WSV010 to form a membrane-associated protein complex.
Taking into account these coincidences, it might be interesting to test whether VvRVE1 could act as a core clock morning gene in grapevine pre-ripe fruits.
In particular, we observed differences in GalNAc-containing glycoconjugates; GalNAc usually acts as a core component of O-linked glycans, which are frequently found on serine and threonine residues in mucins and other secreted proteins.
