The phrase "constitute a component" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is part of a larger group or entity. For example: "These three elements constitute a component of the larger system."
These caves, called solution caves, typically constitute a component of what is known as karst terrain.
These cells constitute a component of the stem cells' cellular neighborhood or "niche," and elaborate myriad growth factors and cues necessary for the maintenance of ISCs.
This suppression of adaptive phenotypic plasticity is likely to constitute a component of virulence, and to be one of the mechanisms explaining the condition-dependent expression of virulence in numerous systems.
SC-guided algorithms may constitute a component of antibiotic stewardship programs.
These transcription factors may constitute a component of both developmental and adult neural responses to alcohol exposure.
Evidence of the frequent placement of the putative human-specific TF-binding sites within LADs suggests that at least some LADs in the human genome may constitute a component of the human-specific genomic regulatory network.
They showed that it was a euglobulin with an S020w of 11 and further demonstrated that it constituted a component of hæmolytic complement distinct from the known components of the human system.
Therefore berries may have constituted a component of the Beaver Pond bear's diet, particularly during the peak seasons, and their high sugar and acid contents could have resulted in the observed pronounced dental caries.
The ability to correctly interpret scores from assessments constitutes a component of assessment literacy (Inbar-Lourie 2008).
